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40.Dd August 7, 1994
41.Dt RTFPS 4
42.Os NetBSD 1.0
43.Sh NAME
44.Nm rtfps
45.Nd
46multiplexing serial communications interface
47.Sh SYNOPSIS
48.Cd "rtfps0 at isa? port 0x1230 irq 10"
49.Cd "com2 at rtfps0 slave 0"
50.Cd "com3 at rtfps0 slave 1"
51.Cd "com4 at rtfps0 slave 2"
52.Cd "com5 at rtfps0 slave 3"
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54The
55.Nm rtfps
56driver provides support for IBM RT PC boards that multiplex together up to four
57.Rn EIA
58.Tn RS-232C
59.Pf ( Tn CCITT
60.Tn V.28 )
61or
62.Tn RS-422A
63communications interfaces.
64.Pp
65Each
66.Nm
67device is the master device for up to four
68.Nm com
69devices.  The kernel configuration specifies these
70.Nm com
71devices as slave devices of the
72.Nm
73device, as shown in the synopsis.
74The
75.Tn port
76specification for the
77.Nm
78device is used to compute the base addresses for the
79.Nm com
80subdevices.
81.Sh FILES
82.Bl -tag -width Pa
83.It Pa /dev/tty0?
84.El
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr com 4
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Nm
90driver was written by Charles Hannum, based on the
91.Nm ast
92driver.
93.Sh BUGS
94The
95.Nm
96driver is unlikely to work on non-EISA and non-PCI machines.  The ISA
97bus only asserts 10 I/O address lines, and this is not enough.
98.Pp
99Even on EISA and PCI machines, some address conflicts have been observed.
100On one machine, the second port always conflicted with something (though
101it's not clear what) and caused strange results.  Disabling the second
102port in the kernel config allowed the other three ports to function
103correctly.
104