freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/sab.4
Bruce M Simpson cc37381f9f Add the manual page for the sab(4) driver. Driver code was originally
obtained from NetBSD. This is the OpenBSD version of the manual page with
a few fixes.

Approved by:	jake (mentor)
Obtained from:	OpenBSD
2003-08-18 15:32:02 +00:00

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.Dd October 29, 2001
.Dt SAB 4 sparc64
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sab
.Nd Infineon SAB82532 (ESCC2) serial communications driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device sab"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
is a
.Tn Infineon
(formerly
.Tn Siemens )
SAB82532 (ESCC2) serial interface chip used in PCI-based UltraSPARC
.Tn Sun
workstations.
The ESCC2 provides two independent input/output channels per instance.
These chips are normally used to provide RS-423 and RS232 serial ports
for general purpose use.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports all of the standard
.Xr tty 4
ioctl calls.
The status of the DTR, RTS, CTS, and DCD signals can be queried with
TIOCMGET command, but, due to limitations in the hardware,
only the DTR and RTS signals can be modified with TIOCMSET, TIOCMBIC,
and TIOCMBIS
.Xr ioctl 2
commands.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/ttyh[0-1] -compact
.It /dev/tty[a-b]
Serial ports
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr tty 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 5.1 .
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
does not support cua minor devices.