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35.Dd January 10, 2010
36.Dt COM 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm com
40.Nd serial communications interface
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "com0 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM1\&" irq 4
43.Cd "com1 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM2\&" irq 3
44.Cd "com* at acpi?"
45.Cd "com* at cardbus?"
46.Cd "com* at isapnp?"
47.Cd "com* at mca? slot ?"
48.Cd "com* at mhzc?"
49.Cd "com* at ofisa?"
50.Cd "com* at pcmcia?"
51.Cd "com* at pcmcom?"
52.Cd "com* at pnpbios? index ?"
53.Cd "com* at puc? port ?"
54.Cd "com* at xirc?"
55.Cd options COM_HAYESP
56.Cd options RND_COM
57.Ss Arm32
58.Cd "com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0"
59.Cd "com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0"
60.Ss HP 9000/300 and 400 Series
61.Cd "com* at dio? scode ?"
62.Cd "com* at frodo? offset ?"
63.Ss HP 9000/700 and 800 Series
64.Cd "com* at dino?"
65.Cd "com* at gsc?"
66.Ss IBM PowerPC 4xx
67.Cd "com* at opb?"
68.Ss SPARC
69.Cd "com* at ebus?"
70.Cd "com* at obio0"
71.Sh DESCRIPTION
72The
73.Nm
74driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
75.Tn EIA
76.Tn RS-232C
77.Pf ( Tn CCITT
78.Tn V.28 )
79communications interfaces.
80The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
81buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
82.Pp
83Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
8450, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
8519200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
86of 115200.
87.Pp
88The ttyXX devices are traditional dial-in devices; the dtyXX devices are
89used for dial-out.
90(See
91.Xr tty 4 . )
92.Pp
93.Cd options COM_HAYESP
94adds support for the Hayes ESP serial board.
95.Pp
96With
97.Cd options RND_COM
98enabled, the
99.Nm
100driver can be used to collect entropy for the
101.Xr rnd 4
102entropy pool.
103The entropy is generated from interrupt randomness.
104.Ss Arm32 specific
105If
106.Dq flags 1
107is specified, the
108.Nm
109driver will not set the
110.Dv MCR_IENABLE
111bit on the UART.
112This is mainly for use on AST multiport boards, where the
113.Dv MCR_IENABLE
114bit is used to control whether or not the devices use a shared
115interrupt.
116.Sh FILES
117.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
118.It Pa /dev/dty00
119.It Pa /dev/dty01
120.It Pa /dev/dty02
121.It Pa /dev/tty00
122.It Pa /dev/tty01
123.It Pa /dev/tty02
124.El
125.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
126.Bl -diag
127.It com%d: %d silo overflows
128The input
129.Dq silo
130has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
131.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
132The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
133with the code listed.
134.El
135.Sh SEE ALSO
136.Xr acpi 4 ,
137.Xr ast 4 ,
138.Xr cardbus 4 ,
139.Xr isa 4 ,
140.Xr isapnp 4 ,
141.Xr mca 4 ,
142.Xr mhzc 4 ,
143.Xr ofisa 4 ,
144.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
145.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
146.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
147.Xr puc 4 ,
148.Xr rtfps 4 ,
149.Xr tty 4 ,
150.Xr xirc 4
151.Sh HISTORY
152The
153.Nm
154driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
155.Ic dca
156driver.
157.Sh BUGS
158Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
159.Pp
160The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
161of the various serial ports are holdovers from
162.Tn DOS .
163