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35.Dd June 1, 2007
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 IBM PowerPC 4xx
64.Cd "com* at opb?"
65.Ss SPARC
66.Cd "com* at ebus?"
67.Cd "com* at obio0"
68.Sh DESCRIPTION
69The
70.Nm
71driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
72.Tn EIA
73.Tn RS-232C
74.Pf ( Tn CCITT
75.Tn V.28 )
76communications interfaces.  The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
77buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
78.Pp
79Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
8050, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
8119200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
82of 115200.
83.Pp
84The ttyXX devices are traditional dial-in devices; the dtyXX devices are
85used for dial-out.  (See
86.Xr tty 4 . )
87.Pp
88The
89.Va COM_HAYESP
90kernel option adds support for the Hayes ESP serial board.
91.Pp
92With options RND_COM enabled, the
93.Nm
94driver can be used to collect entropy for the
95.Xr rnd 4
96entropy pool.  The entropy is generated from interrupt randomness.
97.Ss Arm32 specific
98If
99.Dq flags 1
100is specified, the
101.Nm
102driver will not set the MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART.  This is mainly for
103use on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit is used to control
104whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
105.Sh FILES
106.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
107.It Pa /dev/dty00
108.It Pa /dev/dty01
109.It Pa /dev/dty02
110.It Pa /dev/tty00
111.It Pa /dev/tty01
112.It Pa /dev/tty02
113.El
114.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
115.Bl -diag
116.It com%d: %d silo overflows
117The input
118.Dq silo
119has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
120.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
121The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
122with the code listed.
123.El
124.Sh SEE ALSO
125.Xr acpi 4 ,
126.Xr ast 4 ,
127.Xr cardbus 4 ,
128.Xr isa 4 ,
129.Xr isapnp 4 ,
130.Xr mca 4 ,
131.Xr mhzc 4 ,
132.Xr ofisa 4 ,
133.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
134.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
135.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
136.Xr puc 4 ,
137.Xr rtfps 4 ,
138.Xr tty 4 ,
139.Xr xirc 4
140.Sh HISTORY
141The
142.Nm
143driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
144.Ic dca
145driver.
146.Sh BUGS
147Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
148.Pp
149The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
150of the various serial ports are holdovers from
151.Tn DOS .
152