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26.Dd January 28, 1997
27.Dt DL 4 vax
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm dl
31.Nd
32.Tn DL-11 Ns / Ns Tn DLV-11
33serial device driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "dl0 at uba? csr 0176500"
36.Cd "dl1 at uba? csr 0176510"
37.Cd "dl2 at uba? csr 0176520"
38.Cd "dl3 at uba? csr 0176530"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver controls a
43.Tn DL-11 Ns -compatible
44asynchronous serial card, and probably things compatible with it.
45A four-port
46.Tn DLV-11J
47will appear four times in the device list, as the ports look like
48separate cards to the driver.
49.Pp
50The
51.Nm
52driver provides the normal interface described in
53.Xr tty 4 ,
54but many of the configuration calls are unsupported, since their
55functions are handled by jumpers or switches on the serial card
56itself.
57Calls related to modem-control lines are also ignored, since
58these cards lack them.
59.Pp
60There's a chance this driver might also work with an
61.Tn LP11 ,
62an
63.Tn LPV11
64or even a
65.Tn PC11 ,
66but it hasn't been tested.
67.Sh FILES
68.Bl -tag -width /dev/ttyJ? -compact
69.It Pa /dev/ttyJ?
70Special files for communicating with dl devices.
71.El
72.\" .Sh EXAMPLES
73.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
74.Bl -diag
75.It dl%d: rx overrun.
76The character in the receive buffer wasn't read before the next
77character arrived, and has been lost.
78.It dl%d: stray rx interrupt.
79The driver was called to service a receive interrupt, but there was
80nothing for it to read.
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr tty 4
84.\" .Sh STANDARDS
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Nm
88driver was written for
89.Nx 1.3 .
90.Sh AUTHORS
91.An Ben Harris Aq Mt bjh21@NetBSD.org
92.Sh BUGS
93The
94.Tn DL-11
95and friends only have single-character receive and transmit buffers,
96so an interrupt is generated for every character received or
97transmitted.
98Attempting to receive data at even moderately high rates
99will cause rx overruns.
100Fast transmission seems to be fine though.
101.Pp
102There is no support in the driver for the paper-tape reader on an
103.Tn LT33
104attached via a
105.Tn DLV-11KA
106or similar.
107.Pp
108The overrun message is logged in the interrupt routine itself, which
109will probably just make the problem worse.
110.Pp
111The CSR printed on startup is that of the receiver, while the
112interrupt vector is that of the transmitter.
113.Pp
114In order to determine the card's interrupt vector, the driver sends a
115.Dv NUL
116to each port.
117This may confuse things attached to them.
118.Pp
119The driver has so far only been tested on a
120.Tn DLV-11J .
121It may or may not work on the other cards it claims to support.
122