1 This is the README for RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver 2 (C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin (pgmdsg@ibi.com) 3 See file LICENSE for terms and conditions. 4 5NOTE: English is not my native language. 6 I'm sorry for any mistakes in this text. 7 8Misc. notes for RISCom/8 serial driver, in no particular order :) 9 101) This driver can support up to 4 boards at time. 11 Use string "riscom8=0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX" at LILO prompt, for 12 setting I/O base addresses for boards. If you compile driver 13 as module use insmod options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..." 14 152) The driver partially supports famous 'setserial' program, you can use almost 16 any of its options, excluding port & irq settings. 17 183) There are some misc. defines at the beginning of riscom8.c, please read the 19 comments and try to change some of them in case of problems. 20 214) I consider the current state of the driver as BETA. 22 If you REALLY think you found a bug, send me e-mail, I hope I'll 23 fix it. For any other problems please ask support@sdlcomm.com. 24 255) SDL Communications WWW page is http://www.sdlcomm.com. 26 276) You can use the script at the end of this file to create RISCom/8 devices. 28 297) Minor numbers for first board are 0-7, for second 8-15, etc. 30 3122 Apr 1996. 32 33-------------------------------cut here------------------------------------- 34#!/bin/bash 35NORMAL_DEVICE=/dev/ttyL 36CALLOUT_DEVICE=/dev/cuL 37NORMAL_MAJOR=48 38CALLOUT_MAJOR=49 39 40echo "Creating devices... " 41for i in 0 1 2 3; do 42 echo "Board No $[$i+1]" 43 for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do 44 k=$[ 8 * $i + $j] 45 rm -f $NORMAL_DEVICE$k 46 mknod $NORMAL_DEVICE$k c $NORMAL_MAJOR $k 47 chmod a+rw $NORMAL_DEVICE$k 48 echo -n $NORMAL_DEVICE$k" " 49 rm -f $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k 50 mknod $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k c $CALLOUT_MAJOR $k 51 chmod a+rw $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k 52 echo $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k 53 done 54done 55echo "done." 56-------------------------------cut here------------------------------------- 57