| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | * NOTE - this is an unmaintained driver. The original author cannot be located. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | SDL Communications is now SBS Technologies, and does not have any |
| 4 | information on these ancient ISA cards on their website. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> - 12-12-2004 |
| 7 | |
| 8 | This is the README for RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver |
| 9 | (C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin |
| 10 | See file LICENSE for terms and conditions. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | NOTE: English is not my native language. |
| 13 | I'm sorry for any mistakes in this text. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Misc. notes for RISCom/8 serial driver, in no particular order :) |
| 16 | |
| 17 | 1) This driver can support up to 4 boards at time. |
| 18 | Use string "riscom8=0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX" at LILO prompt, for |
| 19 | setting I/O base addresses for boards. If you compile driver |
| 20 | as module use modprobe options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..." |
| 21 | |
| 22 | 2) The driver partially supports famous 'setserial' program, you can use almost |
| 23 | any of its options, excluding port & irq settings. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | 3) There are some misc. defines at the beginning of riscom8.c, please read the |
| 26 | comments and try to change some of them in case of problems. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | 4) I consider the current state of the driver as BETA. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | 5) SDL Communications WWW page is http://www.sdlcomm.com. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | 6) You can use the MAKEDEV program to create RISCom/8 /dev/ttyL* entries. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | 7) Minor numbers for first board are 0-7, for second 8-15, etc. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | 22 Apr 1996. |