freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/puc.4
John Hay 9c564b6c92 Add the puc (PCI "Universal" Communications) driver. The idea and some of
the structure definitions come from NetBSD to make it easier to share card
definitions. The driver only acts as a shim between the pci bus and the
sio driver. Later pci parallel ports could also be supported through this
driver. Support for most single and multiport pci serial cards should be
as simple as adding its definition to pucdata.c

Tested with the following pci cards:
Moxa Industio CP-114, 4 port RS-232,RS-422/485
Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP, 4 port RS-232 + 2 parallel ports
Netmos NM9835 PCI-2S-550, 2 port RS-232
2002-02-16 15:12:14 +00:00

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.Dd February 7, 2002
.Dt PUC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm puc
.Nd PCI ``Universal'' Communications driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd device pci
.Cd device puc
.Cd device sio
.Cd options PUC_FASTINTR
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver acts as a shim to connect pci serial ports to the
.Xr sio 4
driver.
.Pp
The list of supported devices is in
.Em src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c.
Support for new cards should be added there.
.Pp
If the PUC_FASTINTR option is used the driver will try to use fast interrupts.
This should lower the interrupt latency and should be used if the
.Xr sio 4
driver reports
.Em silo overflow
errors.
It cannot be used if the interrupt is shared.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sio 4
.Sh HISTORY
This driver took the idea from the
.Nx
.Xr puc 4
driver and still use the same structure to describe cards to ease exchanging
card info.
.Sh BUGS
Only serial ports are supported through the
.Xr sio 4
driver at the moment.
Someone should write support for parallel ports using the
.Xr lpt 4
driver.