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diff --git a/Documentation/serial/specialix.txt b/Documentation/serial/specialix.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6eb6f3a3331c..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/serial/specialix.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,383 +0,0 @@ - - specialix.txt -- specialix IO8+ multiport serial driver readme. - - - - Copyright (C) 1997 Roger Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl) - - Specialix pays for the development and support of this driver. - Please DO contact io8-linux@specialix.co.uk if you require - support. - - This driver was developed in the BitWizard linux device - driver service. If you require a linux device driver for your - product, please contact devices@BitWizard.nl for a quote. - - This code is firmly based on the riscom/8 serial driver, - written by Dmitry Gorodchanin. The specialix IO8+ card - programming information was obtained from the CL-CD1865 Data - Book, and Specialix document number 6200059: IO8+ Hardware - Functional Specification, augmented by document number 6200088: - Merak Hardware Functional Specification. (IO8+/PCI is also - called Merak) - - - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or - modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as - published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of - the License, or (at your option) any later version. - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR - PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public - License along with this program; if not, write to the Free - Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, - USA. - - -Intro -===== - - -This file contains some random information, that I like to have online -instead of in a manual that can get lost. Ever misplace your Linux -kernel sources? And the manual of one of the boards in your computer? - - -Addresses and interrupts -======================== - -Address dip switch settings: -The dip switch sets bits 2-9 of the IO address. - - 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 - +-----------------+ - 0 | X X X X X X X | - | | = IoBase = 0x100 - 1 | X | - +-----------------+ ------ RS232 connectors ----> - - | | | - edge connector - | | | - V V V - -Base address 0x100 caused a conflict in one of my computers once. I -haven't the foggiest why. My Specialix card is now at 0x180. My -other computer runs just fine with the Specialix card at 0x100.... -The card occupies 4 addresses, but actually only two are really used. - -The PCI version doesn't have any dip switches. The BIOS assigns -an IO address. - -The driver now still autoprobes at 0x100, 0x180, 0x250 and 0x260. If -that causes trouble for you, please report that. I'll remove -autoprobing then. - -The driver will tell the card what IRQ to use, so you don't have to -change any jumpers to change the IRQ. Just use a command line -argument (irq=xx) to the insmod program to set the interrupt. - -The BIOS assigns the IRQ on the PCI version. You have no say in what -IRQ to use in that case. - -If your specialix cards are not at the default locations, you can use -the kernel command line argument "specialix=io0,irq0,io1,irq1...". -Here "io0" is the io address for the first card, and "irq0" is the -irq line that the first card should use. And so on. - -Examples. - -You use the driver as a module and have three cards at 0x100, 0x250 -and 0x180. And some way or another you want them detected in that -order. Moreover irq 12 is taken (e.g. by your PS/2 mouse). - - insmod specialix.o iobase=0x100,0x250,0x180 irq=9,11,15 - -The same three cards, but now in the kernel would require you to -add - - specialix=0x100,9,0x250,11,0x180,15 - -to the command line. This would become - - append="specialix=0x100,9,0x250,11,0x180,15" - -in your /etc/lilo.conf file if you use lilo. - -The Specialix driver is slightly odd: It allows you to have the second -or third card detected without having a first card. This has -advantages and disadvantages. A slot that isn't filled by an ISA card, -might be filled if a PCI card is detected. Thus if you have an ISA -card at 0x250 and a PCI card, you would get: - -sx0: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x100 not found. -sx1: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x180 not found. -sx2: specialix IO8+ board detected at 0x250, IRQ 12, CD1865 Rev. B. -sx3: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x260 not found. -sx0: specialix IO8+ board detected at 0xd800, IRQ 9, CD1865 Rev. B. - -This would happen if you don't give any probe hints to the driver. -If you would specify: - - specialix=0x250,11 - -you'd get the following messages: - -sx0: specialix IO8+ board detected at 0x250, IRQ 11, CD1865 Rev. B. -sx1: specialix IO8+ board detected at 0xd800, IRQ 9, CD1865 Rev. B. - -ISA probing is aborted after the IO address you gave is exhausted, and -the PCI card is now detected as the second card. The ISA card is now -also forced to IRQ11.... - - -Baud rates -========== - -The rev 1.2 and below boards use a CL-CD1864. These chips can only -do 64kbit. The rev 1.3 and newer boards use a CL-CD1865. These chips -are officially capable of 115k2. - -The Specialix card uses a 25MHz crystal (in times two mode, which in -fact is a divided by two mode). This is not enough to reach the rated -115k2 on all ports at the same time. With this clock rate you can only -do 37% of this rate. This means that at 115k2 on all ports you are -going to lose characters (The chip cannot handle that many incoming -bits at this clock rate.) (Yes, you read that correctly: there is a -limit to the number of -=bits=- per second that the chip can handle.) - -If you near the "limit" you will first start to see a graceful -degradation in that the chip cannot keep the transmitter busy at all -times. However with a central clock this slow, you can also get it to -miss incoming characters. The driver will print a warning message when -you are outside the official specs. The messages usually show up in -the file /var/log/messages . - -The specialix card cannot reliably do 115k2. If you use it, you have -to do "extensive testing" (*) to verify if it actually works. - -When "mgetty" communicates with my modem at 115k2 it reports: -got: +++[0d]ATQ0V1H0[0d][0d][8a]O[cb][0d][8a] - ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ - -The three characters that have the "^^^" under them have suffered a -bit error in the highest bit. In conclusion: I've tested it, and found -that it simply DOESN'T work for me. I also suspect that this is also -caused by the baud rate being just a little bit out of tune. - -I upgraded the crystal to 66Mhz on one of my Specialix cards. Works -great! Contact me for details. (Voids warranty, requires a steady hand -and more such restrictions....) - - -(*) Cirrus logic CD1864 databook, page 40. - - -Cables for the Specialix IO8+ -============================= - -The pinout of the connectors on the IO8+ is: - - pin short direction long name - name - Pin 1 DCD input Data Carrier Detect - Pin 2 RXD input Receive - Pin 3 DTR/RTS output Data Terminal Ready/Ready To Send - Pin 4 GND - Ground - Pin 5 TXD output Transmit - Pin 6 CTS input Clear To Send - - - -- 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- - | | - | | - | | - | | - +----- -----+ - |__________| - clip - - Front view of an RJ12 connector. Cable moves "into" the paper. - (the plug is ready to plug into your mouth this way...) - - - NULL cable. I don't know who is going to use these except for - testing purposes, but I tested the cards with this cable. (It - took quite a while to figure out, so I'm not going to delete - it. So there! :-) - - - This end goes This end needs - straight into the some twists in - RJ12 plug. the wiring. - IO8+ RJ12 IO8+ RJ12 - 1 DCD white - - - - 1 DCD - 2 RXD black 5 TXD - 3 DTR/RTS red 6 CTS - 4 GND green 4 GND - 5 TXD yellow 2 RXD - 6 CTS blue 3 DTR/RTS - - - Same NULL cable, but now sorted on the second column. - - 1 DCD white - - - - 1 DCD - 5 TXD yellow 2 RXD - 6 CTS blue 3 DTR/RTS - 4 GND green 4 GND - 2 RXD black 5 TXD - 3 DTR/RTS red 6 CTS - - - - This is a modem cable usable for hardware handshaking: - RJ12 DB25 DB9 - 1 DCD white 8 DCD 1 DCD - 2 RXD black 3 RXD 2 RXD - 3 DTR/RTS red 4 RTS 7 RTS - 4 GND green 7 GND 5 GND - 5 TXD yellow 2 TXD 3 TXD - 6 CTS blue 5 CTS 8 CTS - +---- 6 DSR 6 DSR - +---- 20 DTR 4 DTR - - This is a modem cable usable for software handshaking: - It allows you to reset the modem using the DTR ioctls. - I (REW) have never tested this, "but xxxxxxxxxxxxx - says that it works." If you test this, please - tell me and I'll fill in your name on the xxx's. - - RJ12 DB25 DB9 - 1 DCD white 8 DCD 1 DCD - 2 RXD black 3 RXD 2 RXD - 3 DTR/RTS red 20 DTR 4 DTR - 4 GND green 7 GND 5 GND - 5 TXD yellow 2 TXD 3 TXD - 6 CTS blue 5 CTS 8 CTS - +---- 6 DSR 6 DSR - +---- 4 RTS 7 RTS - - I bought a 6 wire flat cable. It was colored as indicated. - Check that yours is the same before you trust me on this. - - -Hardware handshaking issues. -============================ - -The driver can be told to operate in two different ways. The default -behaviour is specialix.sx_rtscts = 0 where the pin behaves as DTR when -hardware handshaking is off. It behaves as the RTS hardware -handshaking signal when hardware handshaking is selected. - -When you use this, you have to use the appropriate cable. The -cable will either be compatible with hardware handshaking or with -software handshaking. So switching on the fly is not really an -option. - -I actually prefer to use the "specialix.sx_rtscts=1" option. -This makes the DTR/RTS pin always an RTS pin, and ioctls to -change DTR are always ignored. I have a cable that is configured -for this. - - -Ports and devices -================= - -Port 0 is the one furthest from the card-edge connector. - -Devices: - -You should make the devices as follows: - -bash -cd /dev -for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 \ - 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -do - echo -n "$i " - mknod /dev/ttyW$i c 75 $i - mknod /dev/cuw$i c 76 $i -done -echo "" - -If your system doesn't come with these devices preinstalled, bug your -linux-vendor about this. They have had ample time to get this -implemented by now. - -You cannot have more than 4 boards in one computer. The card only -supports 4 different interrupts. If you really want this, contact me -about this and I'll give you a few tips (requires soldering iron).... - -If you have enough PCI slots, you can probably use more than 4 PCI -versions of the card though.... - -The PCI version of the card cannot adhere to the mechanical part of -the PCI spec because the 8 serial connectors are simply too large. If -it doesn't fit in your computer, bring back the card. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - Fixed bugs and restrictions: - - During initialization, interrupts are blindly turned on. - Having a shadow variable would cause an extra memory - access on every IO instruction. - - The interrupt (on the card) should be disabled when we - don't allocate the Linux end of the interrupt. This allows - a different driver/card to use it while all ports are not in - use..... (a la standard serial port) - == An extra _off variant of the sx_in and sx_out macros are - now available. They don't set the interrupt enable bit. - These are used during initialization. Normal operation uses - the old variant which enables the interrupt line. - - RTS/DTR issue needs to be implemented according to - specialix' spec. - I kind of like the "determinism" of the current - implementation. Compile time flag? - == Ok. Compile time flag! Default is how Specialix likes it. - == Now a config time flag! Gets saved in your config file. Neat! - - Can you set the IO address from the lilo command line? - If you need this, bug me about it, I'll make it. - == Hah! No bugging needed. Fixed! :-) - - Cirrus logic hasn't gotten back to me yet why the CD1865 can - and the CD1864 can't do 115k2. I suspect that this is - because the CD1864 is not rated for 33MHz operation. - Therefore the CD1864 versions of the card can't do 115k2 on - all ports just like the CD1865 versions. The driver does - not block 115k2 on CD1864 cards. - == I called the Cirrus Logic representative here in Holland. - The CD1864 databook is identical to the CD1865 databook, - except for an extra warning at the end. Similar Bit errors - have been observed in testing at 115k2 on both an 1865 and - a 1864 chip. I see no reason why I would prohibit 115k2 on - 1864 chips and not do it on 1865 chips. Actually there is - reason to prohibit it on BOTH chips. I print a warning. - If you use 115k2, you're on your own. - - A spiky CD may send spurious HUPs. Also in CLOCAL??? - -- A fix for this turned out to be counter productive. - Different fix? Current behaviour is acceptable? - -- Maybe the current implementation is correct. If anybody - gets bitten by this, please report, and it will get fixed. - - -- Testing revealed that when in CLOCAL, the problem doesn't - occur. As warned for in the CD1865 manual, the chip may - send modem intr's on a spike. We could filter those out, - but that would be a cludge anyway (You'd still risk getting - a spurious HUP when two spikes occur.)..... - - - - Bugs & restrictions: - - This is a difficult card to autoprobe. - You have to WRITE to the address register to even - read-probe a CD186x register. Disable autodetection? - -- Specialix: any suggestions? - - |