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35.Dd December 14, 2003
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 options COM_HAYESP
55.Cd options RND_COM
56.Ss Arm32
57.Cd "com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0"
58.Cd "com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0"
59.Ss HP 9000/300 and 400 Series
60.Cd "com* at dio? scode ?"
61.Cd "com* at frodo? offset ?"
62.Ss IBM PowerPC 4xx
63.Cd "com* at opb?"
64.Ss SPARC
65.Cd "com* at ebus?"
66.Cd "com* at obio0"
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68The
69.Nm
70driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
71.Tn EIA
72.Tn RS-232C
73.Pf ( Tn CCITT
74.Tn V.28 )
75communications interfaces.  The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
76buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
77.Pp
78Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
7950, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
8019200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
81of 115200.
82.Pp
83The ttyXX devices are traditional dial-in devices; the dtyXX devices are
84used for dial-out.  (See
85.Xr tty 4 . )
86.Pp
87The
88.Va COM_HAYESP
89kernel option adds support for the Hayes ESP serial board.
90.Pp
91With options RND_COM enabled, the
92.Nm
93driver can be used to collect entropy for the
94.Xr rnd 4
95entropy pool.  The entropy is generated from interrupt randomness.
96.Ss Arm32 specific
97If
98.Dq flags 1
99is specified, the
100.Nm
101driver will not set the MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART.  This is mainly for
102use on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit is used to control
103whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
104.Sh FILES
105.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
106.It Pa /dev/dty00
107.It Pa /dev/dty01
108.It Pa /dev/dty02
109.It Pa /dev/tty00
110.It Pa /dev/tty01
111.It Pa /dev/tty02
112.El
113.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
114.Bl -diag
115.It com%d: %d silo overflows
116The input
117.Dq silo
118has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
119.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
120The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
121with the code listed.
122.El
123.Sh SEE ALSO
124.Xr acpi 4 ,
125.Xr ast 4 ,
126.Xr cardbus 4 ,
127.Xr isa 4 ,
128.Xr isapnp 4 ,
129.Xr mca 4 ,
130.Xr mhzc 4 ,
131.Xr ofisa 4 ,
132.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
133.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
134.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
135.Xr puc 4 ,
136.Xr rtfps 4 ,
137.Xr tty 4
138.Sh HISTORY
139The
140.Nm
141driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
142.Ic dca
143driver.
144.Sh BUGS
145Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
146.Pp
147The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
148of the various serial ports are holdovers from
149.Tn DOS .
150