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28.Dd February 4, 1999
29.Dt SPIF 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm spif
33.Nd SBus (spiffy) Serial/Parallel Interface
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "spif* at sbus? slot ? offset ?                " Pq "sun4c/sun4m/sun4u"
36.Cd "stty* at spif?                                " Pq "sun4c/sun4m/sun4u"
37.Cd "sbpp* at spif?                                " Pq "sun4c/sun4m/sun4u"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm spif
41driver provides support for the Sun Serial/Parallel Interface card
42(Sun part number 501-1931), which is based on the
43Cirrus Logic CD180 octal serial controller
44and the Cirrus Logic PPC2 parallel port controller.
45.Pp
46The device minor numbers for this driver are encoded as follows:
47.Bd -literal
48    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
49    | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
50    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
51      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
52      |   |   |   |   |   +---+---+---> port number
53      |   |   |   |   |
54      |   |   |   |   +---------------> unused
55      |   |   |   |
56      |   |   |   +-------------------> dial-out (on tty ports)
57      |   |   |
58      |   |   +-----------------------> unused
59      |   |
60      +---+---------------------------> card number
61.Ed
62.Pp
63Up to four cards are supported in the system.
64.Pp
65Each of the serial ports has an 8 byte FIFO for receive and transmit as
66well as automatic hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.
67.Sh FILES
68.Bl -tag -width /dev/ttyS[0123][0-7] -compact
69.It /dev/ttyS[0123][0-7]
70Serial ports
71.It /dev/bppS[0-3]
72Parallel ports
73.El
74.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
75.Bl -diag
76.It "spif%d: ccr timeout"
77A timeout occurred while writing to one of the CD180 registers.
78.It "stty%d-%d: ring overflow"
79Incoming characters were discarded because the application
80in control of the device did not read the input fast enough.
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr intro 4 ,
84.Xr sbus 4 ,
85.Xr tty 4
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm spif
89adapter was first supported in
90.Ox 2.5 .
91The driver was ported to
92.Nx 3.0 .
93.Sh AUTHORS
94.An -nosplit
95The driver was written by
96.An Jason Wright Aq Mt jason@thought.net ,
97and is heavily based on the
98.Xr magma 4
99driver written by
100.An Iain Hibbert .
101.Sh TODO
102The parallel port is not supported yet.
103.Pp
104Dial-out (cua) devices are not yet supported.
105