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36.Dd August 7, 1994
37.Dt RTFPS 4
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm rtfps
41.Nd multiplexing serial communications interface
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "rtfps0 at isa? port 0x1230 irq 10"
44.Cd "com2 at rtfps0 slave 0"
45.Cd "com3 at rtfps0 slave 1"
46.Cd "com4 at rtfps0 slave 2"
47.Cd "com5 at rtfps0 slave 3"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm rtfps
51driver provides support for IBM RT PC boards that multiplex together up to four
52.Tn EIA
53.Tn RS-232C
54.Pf ( Tn CCITT
55.Tn V.28 )
56or
57.Tn RS-422A
58communications interfaces.
59.Pp
60Each
61.Nm
62device is the master device for up to four
63.Nm com
64devices.  The kernel configuration specifies these
65.Nm com
66devices as slave devices of the
67.Nm
68device, as shown in the synopsis.
69The
70.Tn port
71specification for the
72.Nm
73device is used to compute the base addresses for the
74.Nm com
75subdevices.
76.Sh FILES
77.Bl -tag -width Pa
78.It Pa /dev/tty0?
79.El
80.Sh SEE ALSO
81.Xr com 4
82.Sh HISTORY
83The
84.Nm
85driver was written by Charles Hannum, based on the
86.Nm ast
87driver.
88.Sh BUGS
89The
90.Nm
91driver is unlikely to work on non-EISA and non-PCI machines.  The ISA
92bus only asserts 10 I/O address lines, and this is not enough.
93.Pp
94Even on EISA and PCI machines, some address conflicts have been observed.
95On one machine, the second port always conflicted with something (though
96it's not clear what) and caused strange results.  Disabling the second
97port in the kernel config allowed the other three ports to function
98correctly.
99