NAME
dmz —
DMZ-32 serial terminal
multiplexor
SYNOPSIS
dmz0 at uba? csr 0160540 vector dmzrinta dmzxinta
dmzrintb dmzxintb dmzrintc dmzxintc
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 4.4BSD yet.The dmz device provides 24 lines of
asynchronous serial line support. Modem control on all ports is available as
an option for the H3014 distribution panel.
An optional argument flags may be supplied
with the device specification for dmz in the config
file indicating that the line corresponding to bit number
i is not properly connected, and should be treated as
hard-wired with carrier always present. Thus specifying
‘flags 0x000004’ for
dmz0 would cause line ttya2
to be treated in this way.
Normal I/O control parameters for individual lines are managed by ioctl(2) calls. Line speeds (there are 16 choices for the DMZ) may be initiated via getty(8) and stty(1) or may be communicated by other programs which use ioctl(2) such as ifconfig(8), see tty(4).
The dmz driver normally enables the input
silos with a short timeout (30 milliseconds); this allows multiple
characters to be received per interrupt during periods of high-speed
input.
FILES
- /dev/tty[abcefg][0-9a-n]
DIAGNOSTICS
- dmz%d: NXM line %d.
- No response from the UNIBUS on a DMA transfer within a timeout period. This is often followed by a UNIBUS adapter error. This occurs most frequently when the UNIBUS is heavily loaded and when devices which hog the bus (such as RK07s) are present. It is not serious.
- dmz%d: silo overflow.
- The character input silo overflowed before it could be serviced. This can happen if a hard error occurs when the CPU is running with elevated priority, as the system will then print a message on the console with interrupts disabled. It is not serious.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The dmz driver appeared in
4.3BSD.
BUGS
It should be possible to set the silo timeout with a configuration file option, as the value is a trade-off between efficiency and response time for flow control and character echo.