NAME
com —
serial communications interface for
RS-232C
SYNOPSIS
com0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" irq
4
com1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" irq 3
com* at acpi?
com* at cardbus?
com* at isapnp?
com* at mca? slot ?
com* at mhzc?
com* at ofisa?
com* at pcmcia?
com* at pcmcom?
com* at pnpbios? index ?
com* at puc? port ?
com* at xirc?
options COM_HAYESP
options PPS_SYNC
options PPS_TRAILING_EDGE
options RND_COM
Amiga
com* at clockport?
Arm32
com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0
com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0
com0 at pxaip?
HP 9000/300 and 400 Series
com* at dio? scode ?
com* at frodo? offset ?
HP 9000/700 and 800 Series
com* at dino?
com* at gsc?
com* at ssio?
IBM PowerPC 4xx
com* at opb?
SPARC
com* at ebus?
com* at obio0
x68k
com0 at intio0 addr 0xefff00 intr 240
com1 at intio0 addr 0xefff10 intr 241
DESCRIPTION
Thecom driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-,
and NS16550-based EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.28) communications interfaces. The
NS8250 and NS16450 have single character buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16
character buffer.
Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates; 50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor of 115200.
The ttyXX devices are traditional dial-in devices; the dtyXX devices are used for dial-out. (See tty(4).)
options COM_HAYESP adds support for the
Hayes ESP serial board.
options PPS_SYNC enables code to use the
Data Carrier Detect (DCD) signal line for attachment to an external
precision clock source (e.g., GPS, CDMA) which generates a Pulse Per Second
(PPS) signal. This is used by
ntpd(8) to discipline the system clock, and more accurately
count/measure time. See
options(4) for more discussion.
With options RND_COM enabled, the
com driver can be used to collect entropy for the
rnd(4) entropy pool. The entropy is generated from interrupt
randomness.
Arm32 specific
If “flags 1” is specified, the
com driver will not set the
MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART. This is mainly for use
on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit
is used to control whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
FILES
- /dev/dty00
- /dev/dty01
- /dev/dty02
- /dev/tty00
- /dev/tty01
- /dev/tty02
DIAGNOSTICS
- com%d: %d silo overflows
- The input “silo” has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
- com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
- The device has generated an unexpected interrupt with the code listed.
SEE ALSO
acpi(4), ast(4), cardbus(4), i386/pnpbios(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), mca(4), mhzc(4), ofisa(4), options(4), pcmcia(4), pcmcom(4), puc(4), pxaip(4), rtfps(4), tty(4), xirc(4), ntpd(8)
HISTORY
The com driver was originally derived from
the HP9000/300 dca driver.
BUGS
Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations of the various serial ports are holdovers from DOS.