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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
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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 John Hay.
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.Dd February 7, 2002
.Dt PUC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm puc
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.Nd PCI
.Dq Universal
Communications driver
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
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device pci"
.Cd "device puc"
.Cd "device sio"
.Cd "options PUC_FASTINTR"
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
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This driver acts as a shim to connect PCI serial ports to the
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
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.Xr sio 4
driver.
.Pp
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The list of supported devices is in
.Pa sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c .
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
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Support for new cards should be added there.
.Pp
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If the
.Dv PUC_FASTINTR
option is used, the driver will try to use fast interrupts.
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
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This should lower the interrupt latency and should be used if the
.Xr sio 4
driver reports
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.Sy "silo overflow"
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
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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
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driver and still uses the same structure to describe cards, to ease exchanging
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
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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.
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