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40.Dd August 7, 1994
41.Dt RTFPS 4 i386
42.Os NetBSD 1.0
43.Sh NAME
44.Nm rtfps
45.Nd
46multiplexing serial communications interface
47.Sh SYNOPSIS
48.Cd "master rtfps0 at isa? port 0x1230 irq 10"
49.Cd "device com2 at rtfps0 slave 0"
50.Cd "device com3 at rtfps0 slave 1"
51.Cd "device com4 at rtfps0 slave 2"
52.Cd "device 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.  The kernel configuration specification
74for each slave
75.Nm com
76device can optionally omit the
77.Tn port
78specification, in which case the slaves are assumed to be at
79sequential addresses.  The
80.Tn port
81specification for the
82.Nm
83device is taken as the default port for the first slave
84.Nm com
85device.
86.Sh FILES
87.Bl -tag -width Pa
88.It Pa /dev/tty0?
89.El
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr com 4
92.Sh HISTORY
93The
94.Nm
95driver was written by Charles Hannum, based on the
96.Nm ast
97driver.
98.Sh BUGS
99The
100.Nm
101driver is unlikely to work on non-EISA and non-PCI machines.  The ISA
102bus only asserts 10 I/O address lines, and this is not enough.
103.Pp
104Even on EISA and PCI machines, some address conflicts have been observed.
105On one machine, the second port always conflicted with something (though
106it's not clear what) and caused strange results.  Disabling the second
107port in the kernel config allowed the other three ports to function
108correctly.
109