RC(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual RC(4)NAMErc — RISCom/8 multiport card
SYNOPSIS
device isa
device rcDESCRIPTION
The RISCom/8 is an eight port ISA RS-232C communications multiplexer with
a built in RISC processor. It uses a block of sixteen I/O ports in the
range 0x200 to 0x3f0 selectable by on-board switches or jumpers. The
block must be aligned on a sixteen port boundary. The jumper-selectable
hardware interrupt level may be set to be detected during system initial‐
ization using settings found in the /boot/device.hints file.
This driver is mostly based on the Cirrus Logic CL-CD180 driver.
HARDWARE
The rc driver provides support for the SDL Communications RISCom/8
boards.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following driver specific error messages may be reported:
rc%d channel%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow An internal buffer over‐
flow error has occurred on the listed channel. The rc driver will need
to be reloaded to correct this.
rc%d: Bad char chan %d The channel has obtained a bad set of characters.
rc%d: Got extra chars chan %d The rc driver got more characters than
expected on the channel shown.
rc%d: data mismatch chan %d ptr %d (%d != %d) Data sent from channel %d
to the rx buffer was different then expected.
rc%d: channel %d command timeout, rc.c line: %d A command timeout has
occurred on the channel, the src/sys/dev/rc/rc.c file can be consulted
for more information.
SEE ALSOtty(1), ttyname(3), sio(4), tty(4), device.hints(5), comcontrol(8),
getty(8), mutex(9), splx(9)
http://www.sdlcomm.com
HISTORY
The rc driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0.5. This manual page first
appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes ⟨trhodes@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BUGS
The rc driver code still uses the spl(9) functions. These should be
replaced by mutex(9) functions.
The various ttyld_*() functions should be documented.
BSD March 18, 2005 BSD
