| This is the README for RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver |
| (C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin (pgmdsg@ibi.com) |
| See file LICENSE for terms and conditions. |
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| NOTE: English is not my native language. |
| I'm sorry for any mistakes in this text. |
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| Misc. notes for RISCom/8 serial driver, in no particular order :) |
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| 1) This driver can support up to 4 boards at time. |
| Use string "riscom8=0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX" at LILO prompt, for |
| setting I/O base addresses for boards. If you compile driver |
| as module use insmod options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..." |
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| 2) The driver partially supports famous 'setserial' program, you can use almost |
| any of its options, excluding port & irq settings. |
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| 3) There are some misc. defines at the beginning of riscom8.c, please read the |
| comments and try to change some of them in case of problems. |
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| 4) I consider the current state of the driver as BETA. |
| If you REALLY think you found a bug, send me e-mail, I hope I'll |
| fix it. For any other problems please ask support@sdlcomm.com. |
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| 5) SDL Communications WWW page is http://www.sdlcomm.com. |
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| 6) You can use the script at the end of this file to create RISCom/8 devices. |
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| 7) Minor numbers for first board are 0-7, for second 8-15, etc. |
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| 22 Apr 1996. |
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| #!/bin/bash |
| NORMAL_DEVICE=/dev/ttyL |
| CALLOUT_DEVICE=/dev/cuL |
| NORMAL_MAJOR=48 |
| CALLOUT_MAJOR=49 |
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| echo "Creating devices... " |
| for i in 0 1 2 3; do |
| echo "Board No $[$i+1]" |
| for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do |
| k=$[ 8 * $i + $j] |
| rm -f $NORMAL_DEVICE$k |
| mknod $NORMAL_DEVICE$k c $NORMAL_MAJOR $k |
| chmod a+rw $NORMAL_DEVICE$k |
| echo -n $NORMAL_DEVICE$k" " |
| rm -f $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k |
| mknod $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k c $CALLOUT_MAJOR $k |
| chmod a+rw $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k |
| echo $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k |
| done |
| done |
| echo "done." |
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