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Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
1996-08-11 06:28:43 +04:00
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Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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Drop trailing space.
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.\" $NetBSD: scc.4,v 1.8 2003/05/06 08:09:36 wiz Exp $
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.\"
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
.Dd April 24, 2003
Add missing pages for NetBSD/alpha and co-ordinate pages between NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/pmax. Some other minor fixes.
2001-09-21 13:11:40 +04:00
.Dt SCC 4
More and more of .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file, so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to come.
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.Os
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Sh NAME
.Nm scc
.Nd
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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Zilog 8530 Serial Communications Controller interface
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
Add missing pages for NetBSD/alpha and co-ordinate pages between NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/pmax. Some other minor fixes.
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.Cd "scc* at ioasic? offset ?"
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
The
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
1996-08-11 06:28:43 +04:00
.Nm
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
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driver provides support for the
.Tn Zilog
8530 Serial Communications
Controller
.Pq Tn SCC
via the
.Tn IOASIC
found on
.Tn DECstation
Gaaaaaah! I should have double checked that pmax had been changed to match alpha, and they're different - alpha: ttyB0, pmax: ttya So, change the FILES section again to differentiate between alpha and pmax, plus add a clear statement in the first paragraph as to which computers listed are supported by which port. Hopefully this will properly answer PR 19752
2003-04-25 07:03:07 +04:00
5000 models in the /100, /20, and /240 series
.Po
supported by
.Nx Ns /pmax
.Pc .
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
.Pp
Each
.Tn SCC
device has two serial ports.
The
.Tn DECstation
5000 model 20 provides one
.Tn SCC
device.
Add missing pages for NetBSD/alpha and co-ordinate pages between NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/pmax. Some other minor fixes.
2001-09-21 13:11:40 +04:00
Other models provide two, but one port of each device is dedicated to
mouse and keyboard input, respectively.
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Pp
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates:
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
19200, 38400, or 57600.
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
.Pp
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
1996-08-11 06:28:43 +04:00
Speeds up to 230400 are supported by the chip and the motherboard,
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
but speeds higher than 57600 do not work reliably without an external
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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clock signal.
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
.Sh FILES
One more: add ttys(5) to SEE ALSO, and compact the device file lists.
2003-04-25 07:17:08 +04:00
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
Gaaaaaah! I should have double checked that pmax had been changed to match alpha, and they're different - alpha: ttyB0, pmax: ttya So, change the FILES section again to differentiate between alpha and pmax, plus add a clear statement in the first paragraph as to which computers listed are supported by which port. Hopefully this will properly answer PR 19752
2003-04-25 07:03:07 +04:00
.It Pa /dev/ttya
.It Pa /dev/ttyb
.It Pa /dev/ttyc
.It Pa /dev/ttyd
.El
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
.Pp
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
The mapping from units to serial-hardware outlets is idiosyncratic.
The even ports are wired serial connectors and the odd-numbered ports
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
are reserved for mouse and keyboard.
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
.Pp
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
On machines with one port like
.Tn "Personal DECstations" ,
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
the single device is
Gaaaaaah! I should have double checked that pmax had been changed to match alpha, and they're different - alpha: ttyB0, pmax: ttya So, change the FILES section again to differentiate between alpha and pmax, plus add a clear statement in the first paragraph as to which computers listed are supported by which port. Hopefully this will properly answer PR 19752
2003-04-25 07:03:07 +04:00
.Pa ttya .
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
.Pp
Typos and whitespace fixes.
2001-07-08 21:22:53 +04:00
On the
.Tn "5000/1xx"
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
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and
.Tn "5000/2xx" ,
the first serial port (default serial console) is
Gaaaaaah! I should have double checked that pmax had been changed to match alpha, and they're different - alpha: ttyB0, pmax: ttya So, change the FILES section again to differentiate between alpha and pmax, plus add a clear statement in the first paragraph as to which computers listed are supported by which port. Hopefully this will properly answer PR 19752
2003-04-25 07:03:07 +04:00
.Pa ttyc
Typos and whitespace fixes.
2001-07-08 21:22:53 +04:00
and the second port is
Gaaaaaah! I should have double checked that pmax had been changed to match alpha, and they're different - alpha: ttyB0, pmax: ttya So, change the FILES section again to differentiate between alpha and pmax, plus add a clear statement in the first paragraph as to which computers listed are supported by which port. Hopefully this will properly answer PR 19752
2003-04-25 07:03:07 +04:00
.Pa ttya .
Add missing pages for NetBSD/alpha and co-ordinate pages between NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/pmax. Some other minor fixes.
2001-09-21 13:11:40 +04:00
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
Add MAKEDEV(8) to the SEE ALSO list. Clean up nroff problems. A commit to clean up a problem report comes next.
2003-04-25 06:31:57 +04:00
.Xr ioasic 4 ,
One more: add ttys(5) to SEE ALSO, and compact the device file lists.
2003-04-25 07:17:08 +04:00
.Xr ttys 5 ,
Add MAKEDEV(8) to the SEE ALSO list. Clean up nroff problems. A commit to clean up a problem report comes next.
2003-04-25 06:31:57 +04:00
.Xr MAKEDEV 8
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
OK, remove the alpha bits because it has been converted to use zstty(4) in -current, though NetBSD/alpha on the 1.6 branch is still using scc(4). Mention this in the HISTORY section. This should finally answer PR 19572, although the zstty(4) man page is woefully inadequate.
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.Pp
The
.Nm
driver was also used for the
.Tn IOASIC
.Tn SCC
Drop trailing space.
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found in
OK, remove the alpha bits because it has been converted to use zstty(4) in -current, though NetBSD/alpha on the 1.6 branch is still using scc(4). Mention this in the HISTORY section. This should finally answer PR 19572, although the zstty(4) man page is woefully inadequate.
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.Tn DEC
.Tn Alpha
model 3000
.Tn TurboCHANNEL
based systems;
.Nx Ns /alpha
has since been converted to use the machine-independent
.Xr zstty 4 .
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
1996-08-11 06:28:43 +04:00
.Sh BUGS
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
The
.Tn IOASIC
provides internal
.Tn DMA
channels that can be programmed to transfer up to 4096 bytes of
data into, or out, of an
.Tn SCC
without
Add MAKEDEV(8) to the SEE ALSO list. Clean up nroff problems. A commit to clean up a problem report comes next.
2003-04-25 06:31:57 +04:00
further software intervention.
Change the serial port file names in the FILES section to ttyB0, etc. to match current reality, per PR 19572 Add some paragraph breaks to make the text more readable, and to more clearly separate the topics covered. Sprinkle Tn macros liberally. Update the man page date.
2003-04-25 06:48:23 +04:00
This feature of the
.Tn IOASIC
is not yet supported.
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
.Pp
The mapping from device-special files (major and minor number) to chip
and port is arguably backwards.
Uppercase ULTRIX. Igor Sobrado in PR 19678.
2003-03-31 01:20:17 +04:00
.Tn ULTRIX
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
tries to hide the hardware mapping, but
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
.Nx
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
does not.
Users wanting to use
Uppercase ULTRIX. Igor Sobrado in PR 19678.
2003-03-31 01:20:17 +04:00
.Tn ULTRIX
Typos and whitespace fixes.
2001-07-08 21:22:53 +04:00
compatible tty names
Note the new device-special filenames used in 1.3_ALPHA, and how they map to serial ports.
1997-11-03 14:19:21 +03:00
.Pa /dev/tty0
and
.Pa /dev/tty1
for the
.Nm
comm-port lines should make links or device-special files which match
Uppercase ULTRIX. Igor Sobrado in PR 19678.
2003-03-31 01:20:17 +04:00
their hardware setup.