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35.Dd July 11, 1998
36.Dt PUC 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm puc
40.Nd PCI
41.Dq universal
42communications card driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "puc* at pci? dev ? function ?"
45.Cd "com* at puc? port ?"
46.Cd "lpt* at puc? port ?"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for PCI communications cards containing
51simple communications ports, such as NS16550-family
52.Pf ( Nm com )
53serial ports and standard PC-like
54.Pf ( Nm lpt )
55parallel ports.
56The driver is called
57.Dq universal
58because the interfaces to these devices aren't nearly as well
59defined and standard as they should be.
60.Pp
61The driver currently supports the following cards:
62.Pp
63.Bl -tag -width -offset indent -compact
64.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel)"
65.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4035 (dual serial)"
66.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI (dual parallel and single serial)"
67.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI (dual serial and single parallel)"
68.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)"
69.It Tn "SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single serial and single parallel)"
70.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel Dual PCI (dual parallel)"
71.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel PCI (single parallel)"
72.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial Dual PCI (dual serial)"
73.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial PCI (single serial)"
74.It Tn "VScom PCI-800 (8 port serial, probably OEM)"
75.El
76.Pp
77The driver does not support the cards:
78.Pp
79.Bl -tag -width -offset indent -compact
80.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4006 (single parallel)"
81.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4025 (single serial)"
82.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4078 (dual serial and single parallel)"
83.El
84.Pp
85but support for them (and for similar cards) should be trivial to add.
86.Pp
87The
88.Ar port
89locator is used to identify the port (starting from 0) on the
90communications card that a subdevice is supposed to attach to.
91Typically, the numbering of ports is explained in a card's
92hardware documentation, and the port numbers used by the driver
93are the same as (or one off from, e.g. the manual uses ports
94numbered starting from 1) those described in the documentation.
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr com 4 ,
97.Xr lpt 4 ,
98.Xr pci 4
99.Sh HISTORY
100The
101.Nm
102driver appeared in
103.Nx 1.4 .
104.Sh AUTHOR
105The
106.Nm
107driver was written by Chris Demetriou.
108.Sh BUGS
109The current design of this driver keeps any
110.Nm com
111ports on these cards from easily being used as console.  Of
112course, because boards with those are PCI boards, they also suffer
113from dynamic address assignment, which also means that they
114can't easily be used as console.
115.Pp
116Some of cards supported by this driver have jumper-selectable
117.Nm com
118port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this
119driver.  Those can be easily accommodated with driver flags, or by
120using a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
121.Pp
122Some of the cards supported by this driver, e.g. the VScom PCI-800,
123have software-selectable
124.Nm com
125port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
126Those can be accomodated using internal driver flags, or by using
127a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
128.Pp
129Some ports use an
130.Nm lpt
131driver other than the machine-independent driver.  Those ports
132will not be able to use
133.Nm lpt
134ports attached to
135.Nm
136devices.
137