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35.Dd July 11, 1998
36.Dt PUC 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm puc
40.Nd PCI
41.Dq universal
42communications card driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "puc* at pci? dev ? function ?"
45.Cd "com* at puc? port ?"
46.Cd "lpt* at puc? port ?"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for PCI communications cards containing
51simple communications ports, such as NS16550-family
52.Pf ( Nm com )
53serial ports and standard PC-like
54.Pf ( Nm lpt )
55parallel ports.
56The driver is called
57.Dq universal
58because the interfaces to these devices aren't nearly as well
59defined and standard as they should be.
60.Pp
61The driver currently supports the following cards:
62.Pp
63.Bl -tag -width Dv -offset indent -compact
64.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel)"
65.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4035 (dual serial)"
66.It Tn "NetMos NM9835 (dual parallel and single serial)"
67.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI (dual parallel and single serial)"
68.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI (dual serial and single parallel)"
69.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)"
70.It Tn "SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single serial and single parallel)"
71.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel Dual PCI (dual parallel)"
72.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel PCI (single parallel)"
73.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial Dual PCI (dual serial)"
74.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial PCI (single serial)"
75.It Tn "Titan PCI-800 (8-port serial)"
76.It Tn "Titan PCI-200 (dual serial)"
77.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI Modem"
78.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X008"
79.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (single parallel)"
80.It Tn "Lava Computers dual serial"
81.It Tn "Lava Computers Octopus (8-port serial)"
82.It Tn "US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 PCI 16550 Modem"
83.It Tn "Actiontec 56K PCI Master"
84.It Tn "Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI952 (dual serial and single parallel)"
85.It Tn "Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI954 (4-port serial)"
86.It Tn "NetMos 1P PCI (single parallel)"
87.It Tn "NetMos 2S1P PCI 16C650 (dual serial and single parallel)"
88.It Tn "NetMos 4S1P PCI NM9845 (4-port serial and single parallel)"
89.It Tn "Middle Digital, Inc. Weasel serial port"
90.It Tn "Avlab Technology, Inc. Low Profile PCI 4 Serial (4-port serial)"
91.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 654 (4-port serial)"
92.It Tn "Chase Research / Perle PCI-FAST4 (4-port serial)"
93.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 658 (8-port serial)"
94.It Tn "Chase Research / Perle PCI-FAST8 (8-port serial)"
95.El
96.Pp
97The driver does not support the cards:
98.Pp
99.Bl -tag -width Fl -offset indent -compact
100.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4006 (single parallel)"
101.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4025 (single serial)"
102.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4078 (dual serial and single parallel)"
103.El
104.Pp
105but support for them (and for similar cards) should be trivial to add.
106.Pp
107The
108.Ar port
109locator is used to identify the port (starting from 0) on the
110communications card that a subdevice is supposed to attach to.
111Typically, the numbering of ports is explained in a card's
112hardware documentation, and the port numbers used by the driver
113are the same as (or one off from, e.g. the manual uses ports
114numbered starting from 1) those described in the documentation.
115.Sh SEE ALSO
116.Xr com 4 ,
117.Xr lpt 4 ,
118.Xr pci 4
119.Sh HISTORY
120The
121.Nm
122driver appeared in
123.Nx 1.4 .
124.Sh AUTHORS
125The
126.Nm
127driver was written by Chris Demetriou.
128.Sh BUGS
129The current design of this driver keeps any
130.Nm com
131ports on these cards from easily being used as console.  Of
132course, because boards with those are PCI boards, they also suffer
133from dynamic address assignment, which also means that they
134can't easily be used as console.
135.Pp
136Some of cards supported by this driver have jumper-selectable
137.Nm com
138port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this
139driver.  Those can be easily accommodated with driver flags, or by
140using a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
141.Pp
142Some of the cards supported by this driver, e.g. the VScom PCI-800,
143have software-selectable
144.Nm com
145port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
146Those can be accommodated using internal driver flags, or by using
147a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
148.Pp
149Some ports use an
150.Nm lpt
151driver other than the machine-independent driver.  Those ports
152will not be able to use
153.Nm lpt
154ports attached to
155.Nm
156devices.
157