| NOTE: This is an unmaintained driver. It is not guaranteed to work due to |
| changes made in the tty layer in 2.6. If you wish to take over maintenance of |
| this driver, contact Michael Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com>. |
| |
| Changelog: |
| ---------- |
| 11-01-2001: Original Document |
| |
| 10-29-2004: Minor misspelling & format fix, update status of driver. |
| James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> |
| |
| Computone Intelliport II/Plus Multiport Serial Driver |
| ----------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release Notes For Linux Kernel 2.2 and higher. |
| These notes are for the drivers which have already been integrated into the |
| kernel and have been tested on Linux kernels 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4. |
| |
| Version: 1.2.14 |
| Date: 11/01/2001 |
| Historical Author: Andrew Manison <amanison@america.net> |
| Primary Author: Doug McNash |
| Support: support@computone.com |
| Fixes and Updates: Mike Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com> |
| |
| This file assumes that you are using the Computone drivers which are |
| integrated into the kernel sources. For updating the drivers or installing |
| drivers into kernels which do not already have Computone drivers, please |
| refer to the instructions in the README.computone file in the driver patch. |
| |
| |
| 1. INTRODUCTION |
| |
| This driver supports the entire family of Intelliport II/Plus controllers |
| with the exception of the MicroChannel controllers. It does not support |
| products previous to the Intelliport II. |
| |
| This driver was developed on the v2.0.x Linux tree and has been tested up |
| to v2.4.14; it will probably not work with earlier v1.X kernels,. |
| |
| |
| 2. QUICK INSTALLATION |
| |
| Hardware - If you have an ISA card, find a free interrupt and io port. |
| List those in use with `cat /proc/interrupts` and |
| `cat /proc/ioports`. Set the card dip switches to a free |
| address. You may need to configure your BIOS to reserve an |
| irq for an ISA card. PCI and EISA parameters are set |
| automagically. Insert card into computer with the power off |
| before or after drivers installation. |
| |
| Note the hardware address from the Computone ISA cards installed into |
| the system. These are required for editing ip2.c or editing |
| /etc/modprobe.conf, or for specification on the modprobe |
| command line. |
| |
| Note that the /etc/modules.conf should be used for older (pre-2.6) |
| kernels. |
| |
| Software - |
| |
| Module installation: |
| |
| a) Determine free irq/address to use if any (configure BIOS if need be) |
| b) Run "make config" or "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" |
| Select (m) module for CONFIG_COMPUTONE under character |
| devices. CONFIG_PCI and CONFIG_MODULES also may need to be set. |
| c) Set address on ISA cards then: |
| edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ip2.c if needed |
| or |
| edit /etc/modprobe.conf if needed (module). |
| or both to match this setting. |
| d) Run "make modules" |
| e) Run "make modules_install" |
| f) Run "/sbin/depmod -a" |
| g) install driver using `modprobe ip2 <options>` (options listed below) |
| h) run ip2mkdev (either the script below or the binary version) |
| |
| |
| Kernel installation: |
| |
| a) Determine free irq/address to use if any (configure BIOS if need be) |
| b) Run "make config" or "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" |
| Select (y) kernel for CONFIG_COMPUTONE under character |
| devices. CONFIG_PCI may need to be set if you have PCI bus. |
| c) Set address on ISA cards then: |
| edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ip2.c |
| (Optional - may be specified on kernel command line now) |
| d) Run "make zImage" or whatever target you prefer. |
| e) mv /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage to /boot. |
| f) Add new config for this kernel into /etc/lilo.conf, run "lilo" |
| or copy to a floppy disk and boot from that floppy disk. |
| g) Reboot using this kernel |
| h) run ip2mkdev (either the script below or the binary version) |
| |
| Kernel command line options: |
| |
| When compiling the driver into the kernel, io and irq may be |
| compiled into the driver by editing ip2.c and setting the values for |
| io and irq in the appropriate array. An alternative is to specify |
| a command line parameter to the kernel at boot up. |
| |
| ip2=io0,irq0,io1,irq1,io2,irq2,io3,irq3 |
| |
| Note that this order is very different from the specifications for the |
| modload parameters which have separate IRQ and IO specifiers. |
| |
| The io port also selects PCI (1) and EISA (2) boards. |
| |
| io=0 No board |
| io=1 PCI board |
| io=2 EISA board |
| else ISA board io address |
| |
| You only need to specify the boards which are present. |
| |
| Examples: |
| |
| 2 PCI boards: |
| |
| ip2=1,0,1,0 |
| |
| 1 ISA board at 0x310 irq 5: |
| |
| ip2=0x310,5 |
| |
| This can be added to and "append" option in lilo.conf similar to this: |
| |
| append="ip2=1,0,1,0" |
| |
| |
| 3. INSTALLATION |
| |
| Previously, the driver sources were packaged with a set of patch files |
| to update the character drivers' makefile and configuration file, and other |
| kernel source files. A build script (ip2build) was included which applies |
| the patches if needed, and build any utilities needed. |
| What you receive may be a single patch file in conventional kernel |
| patch format build script. That form can also be applied by |
| running patch -p1 < ThePatchFile. Otherwise run ip2build. |
| |
| The driver can be installed as a module (recommended) or built into the |
| kernel. This is selected as for other drivers through the `make config` |
| command from the root of the Linux source tree. If the driver is built |
| into the kernel you will need to edit the file ip2.c to match the boards |
| you are installing. See that file for instructions. If the driver is |
| installed as a module the configuration can also be specified on the |
| modprobe command line as follows: |
| |
| modprobe ip2 irq=irq1,irq2,irq3,irq4 io=addr1,addr2,addr3,addr4 |
| |
| where irqnum is one of the valid Intelliport II interrupts (3,4,5,7,10,11, |
| 12,15) and addr1-4 are the base addresses for up to four controllers. If |
| the irqs are not specified the driver uses the default in ip2.c (which |
| selects polled mode). If no base addresses are specified the defaults in |
| ip2.c are used. If you are autoloading the driver module with kerneld or |
| kmod the base addresses and interrupt number must also be set in ip2.c |
| and recompile or just insert and options line in /etc/modprobe.conf or both. |
| The options line is equivalent to the command line and takes precedence over |
| what is in ip2.c. |
| |
| /etc/modprobe.conf sample: |
| options ip2 io=1,0x328 irq=1,10 |
| alias char-major-71 ip2 |
| alias char-major-72 ip2 |
| alias char-major-73 ip2 |
| |
| The equivalent in ip2.c: |
| |
| static int io[IP2_MAX_BOARDS]= { 1, 0x328, 0, 0 }; |
| static int irq[IP2_MAX_BOARDS] = { 1, 10, -1, -1 }; |
| |
| The equivalent for the kernel command line (in lilo.conf): |
| |
| append="ip2=1,1,0x328,10" |
| |
| |
| Note: Both io and irq should be updated to reflect YOUR system. An "io" |
| address of 1 or 2 indicates a PCI or EISA card in the board table. |
| The PCI or EISA irq will be assigned automatically. |
| |
| Specifying an invalid or in-use irq will default the driver into |
| running in polled mode for that card. If all irq entries are 0 then |
| all cards will operate in polled mode. |
| |
| If you select the driver as part of the kernel run : |
| |
| make zlilo (or whatever you do to create a bootable kernel) |
| |
| If you selected a module run : |
| |
| make modules && make modules_install |
| |
| The utility ip2mkdev (see 5 and 7 below) creates all the device nodes |
| required by the driver. For a device to be created it must be configured |
| in the driver and the board must be installed. Only devices corresponding |
| to real IntelliPort II ports are created. With multiple boards and expansion |
| boxes this will leave gaps in the sequence of device names. ip2mkdev uses |
| Linux tty naming conventions: ttyF0 - ttyF255 for normal devices, and |
| cuf0 - cuf255 for callout devices. |
| |
| |
| 4. USING THE DRIVERS |
| |
| As noted above, the driver implements the ports in accordance with Linux |
| conventions, and the devices should be interchangeable with the standard |
| serial devices. (This is a key point for problem reporting: please make |
| sure that what you are trying do works on the ttySx/cuax ports first; then |
| tell us what went wrong with the ip2 ports!) |
| |
| Higher speeds can be obtained using the setserial utility which remaps |
| 38,400 bps (extb) to 57,600 bps, 115,200 bps, or a custom speed. |
| Intelliport II installations using the PowerPort expansion module can |
| use the custom speed setting to select the highest speeds: 153,600 bps, |
| 230,400 bps, 307,200 bps, 460,800bps and 921,600 bps. The base for |
| custom baud rate configuration is fixed at 921,600 for cards/expansion |
| modules with ST654's and 115200 for those with Cirrus CD1400's. This |
| corresponds to the maximum bit rates those chips are capable. |
| For example if the baud base is 921600 and the baud divisor is 18 then |
| the custom rate is 921600/18 = 51200 bps. See the setserial man page for |
| complete details. Of course if stty accepts the higher rates now you can |
| use that as well as the standard ioctls(). |
| |
| |
| 5. ip2mkdev and assorted utilities... |
| |
| Several utilities, including the source for a binary ip2mkdev utility are |
| available under .../drivers/char/ip2. These can be build by changing to |
| that directory and typing "make" after the kernel has be built. If you do |
| not wish to compile the binary utilities, the shell script below can be |
| cut out and run as "ip2mkdev" to create the necessary device files. To |
| use the ip2mkdev script, you must have procfs enabled and the proc file |
| system mounted on /proc. |
| |
| |
| 6. NOTES |
| |
| This is a release version of the driver, but it is impossible to test it |
| in all configurations of Linux. If there is any anomalous behaviour that |
| does not match the standard serial port's behaviour please let us know. |
| |
| |
| 7. ip2mkdev shell script |
| |
| Previously, this script was simply attached here. It is now attached as a |
| shar archive to make it easier to extract the script from the documentation. |
| To create the ip2mkdev shell script change to a convenient directory (/tmp |
| works just fine) and run the following command: |
| |
| unshar Documentation/serial/computone.txt |
| (This file) |
| |
| You should now have a file ip2mkdev in your current working directory with |
| permissions set to execute. Running that script with then create the |
| necessary devices for the Computone boards, interfaces, and ports which |
| are present on you system at the time it is run. |
| |
| |
| #!/bin/sh |
| # This is a shell archive (produced by GNU sharutils 4.2.1). |
| # To extract the files from this archive, save it to some FILE, remove |
| # everything before the `!/bin/sh' line above, then type `sh FILE'. |
| # |
| # Made on 2001-10-29 10:32 EST by <mhw@alcove.wittsend.com>. |
| # Source directory was `/home2/src/tmp'. |
| # |
| # Existing files will *not* be overwritten unless `-c' is specified. |
| # |
| # This shar contains: |
| # length mode name |
| # ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------ |
| # 4251 -rwxr-xr-x ip2mkdev |
| # |
| save_IFS="${IFS}" |
| IFS="${IFS}:" |
| gettext_dir=FAILED |
| locale_dir=FAILED |
| first_param="$1" |
| for dir in $PATH |
| do |
| if test "$gettext_dir" = FAILED && test -f $dir/gettext \ |
| && ($dir/gettext --version >/dev/null 2>&1) |
| then |
| set `$dir/gettext --version 2>&1` |
| if test "$3" = GNU |
| then |
| gettext_dir=$dir |
| fi |
| fi |
| if test "$locale_dir" = FAILED && test -f $dir/shar \ |
| && ($dir/shar --print-text-domain-dir >/dev/null 2>&1) |
| then |
| locale_dir=`$dir/shar --print-text-domain-dir` |
| fi |
| done |
| IFS="$save_IFS" |
| if test "$locale_dir" = FAILED || test "$gettext_dir" = FAILED |
| then |
| echo=echo |
| else |
| TEXTDOMAINDIR=$locale_dir |
| export TEXTDOMAINDIR |
| TEXTDOMAIN=sharutils |
| export TEXTDOMAIN |
| echo="$gettext_dir/gettext -s" |
| fi |
| if touch -am -t 200112312359.59 $$.touch >/dev/null 2>&1 && test ! -f 200112312359.59 -a -f $$.touch; then |
| shar_touch='touch -am -t $1$2$3$4$5$6.$7 "$8"' |
| elif touch -am 123123592001.59 $$.touch >/dev/null 2>&1 && test ! -f 123123592001.59 -a ! -f 123123592001.5 -a -f $$.touch; then |
| shar_touch='touch -am $3$4$5$6$1$2.$7 "$8"' |
| elif touch -am 1231235901 $$.touch >/dev/null 2>&1 && test ! -f 1231235901 -a -f $$.touch; then |
| shar_touch='touch -am $3$4$5$6$2 "$8"' |
| else |
| shar_touch=: |
| echo |
| $echo 'WARNING: not restoring timestamps. Consider getting and' |
| $echo "installing GNU \`touch', distributed in GNU File Utilities..." |
| echo |
| fi |
| rm -f 200112312359.59 123123592001.59 123123592001.5 1231235901 $$.touch |
| # |
| if mkdir _sh17581; then |
| $echo 'x -' 'creating lock directory' |
| else |
| $echo 'failed to create lock directory' |
| exit 1 |
| fi |
| # ============= ip2mkdev ============== |
| if test -f 'ip2mkdev' && test "$first_param" != -c; then |
| $echo 'x -' SKIPPING 'ip2mkdev' '(file already exists)' |
| else |
| $echo 'x -' extracting 'ip2mkdev' '(text)' |
| sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'ip2mkdev' && |
| #!/bin/sh - |
| # |
| # ip2mkdev |
| # |
| # Make or remove devices as needed for Computone Intelliport drivers |
| # |
| # First rule! If the dev file exists and you need it, don't mess |
| # with it. That prevents us from screwing up open ttys, ownership |
| # and permissions on a running system! |
| # |
| # This script will NOT remove devices that no longer exist if their |
| # board or interface box has been removed. If you want to get rid |
| # of them, you can manually do an "rm -f /dev/ttyF* /dev/cuaf*" |
| # before running this script. Running this script will then recreate |
| # all the valid devices. |
| # |
| # Michael H. Warfield |
| # /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ |
| # mhw@wittsend.com |
| # |
| # Updated 10/29/2000 for version 1.2.13 naming convention |
| # under devfs. /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ |
| # |
| # Updated 03/09/2000 for devfs support in ip2 drivers. /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ |
| # |
| X |
| if test -d /dev/ip2 ; then |
| # This is devfs mode... We don't do anything except create symlinks |
| # from the real devices to the old names! |
| X cd /dev |
| X echo "Creating symbolic links to devfs devices" |
| X for i in `ls ip2` ; do |
| X if test ! -L ip2$i ; then |
| X # Remove it incase it wasn't a symlink (old device) |
| X rm -f ip2$i |
| X ln -s ip2/$i ip2$i |
| X fi |
| X done |
| X for i in `( cd tts ; ls F* )` ; do |
| X if test ! -L tty$i ; then |
| X # Remove it incase it wasn't a symlink (old device) |
| X rm -f tty$i |
| X ln -s tts/$i tty$i |
| X fi |
| X done |
| X for i in `( cd cua ; ls F* )` ; do |
| X DEVNUMBER=`expr $i : 'F\(.*\)'` |
| X if test ! -L cuf$DEVNUMBER ; then |
| X # Remove it incase it wasn't a symlink (old device) |
| X rm -f cuf$DEVNUMBER |
| X ln -s cua/$i cuf$DEVNUMBER |
| X fi |
| X done |
| X exit 0 |
| fi |
| X |
| if test ! -f /proc/tty/drivers |
| then |
| X echo "\ |
| Unable to check driver status. |
| Make sure proc file system is mounted." |
| X |
| X exit 255 |
| fi |
| X |
| if test ! -f /proc/tty/driver/ip2 |
| then |
| X echo "\ |
| Unable to locate ip2 proc file. |
| Attempting to load driver" |
| X |
| X if /sbin/insmod ip2 |
| X then |
| X if test ! -f /proc/tty/driver/ip2 |
| X then |
| X echo "\ |
| Unable to locate ip2 proc file after loading driver. |
| Driver initialization failure or driver version error. |
| " |
| X exit 255 |
| X fi |
| X else |
| X echo "Unable to load ip2 driver." |
| X exit 255 |
| X fi |
| fi |
| X |
| # Ok... So we got the driver loaded and we can locate the procfs files. |
| # Next we need our major numbers. |
| X |
| TTYMAJOR=`sed -e '/^ip2/!d' -e '/\/dev\/tt/!d' -e 's/.*tt[^ ]*[ ]*\([0-9]*\)[ ]*.*/\1/' < /proc/tty/drivers` |
| CUAMAJOR=`sed -e '/^ip2/!d' -e '/\/dev\/cu/!d' -e 's/.*cu[^ ]*[ ]*\([0-9]*\)[ ]*.*/\1/' < /proc/tty/drivers` |
| BRDMAJOR=`sed -e '/^Driver: /!d' -e 's/.*IMajor=\([0-9]*\)[ ]*.*/\1/' < /proc/tty/driver/ip2` |
| X |
| echo "\ |
| TTYMAJOR = $TTYMAJOR |
| CUAMAJOR = $CUAMAJOR |
| BRDMAJOR = $BRDMAJOR |
| " |
| X |
| # Ok... Now we should know our major numbers, if appropriate... |
| # Now we need our boards and start the device loops. |
| X |
| grep '^Board [0-9]:' /proc/tty/driver/ip2 | while read token number type alltherest |
| do |
| X # The test for blank "type" will catch the stats lead-in lines |
| X # if they exist in the file |
| X if test "$type" = "vacant" -o "$type" = "Vacant" -o "$type" = "" |
| X then |
| X continue |
| X fi |
| X |
| X BOARDNO=`expr "$number" : '\([0-9]\):'` |
| X PORTS=`expr "$alltherest" : '.*ports=\([0-9]*\)' | tr ',' ' '` |
| X MINORS=`expr "$alltherest" : '.*minors=\([0-9,]*\)' | tr ',' ' '` |
| X |
| X if test "$BOARDNO" = "" -o "$PORTS" = "" |
| X then |
| # This may be a bug. We should at least get this much information |
| X echo "Unable to process board line" |
| X continue |
| X fi |
| X |
| X if test "$MINORS" = "" |
| X then |
| # Silently skip this one. This board seems to have no boxes |
| X continue |
| X fi |
| X |
| X echo "board $BOARDNO: $type ports = $PORTS; port numbers = $MINORS" |
| X |
| X if test "$BRDMAJOR" != "" |
| X then |
| X BRDMINOR=`expr $BOARDNO \* 4` |
| X STSMINOR=`expr $BRDMINOR + 1` |
| X if test ! -c /dev/ip2ipl$BOARDNO ; then |
| X mknod /dev/ip2ipl$BOARDNO c $BRDMAJOR $BRDMINOR |
| X fi |
| X if test ! -c /dev/ip2stat$BOARDNO ; then |
| X mknod /dev/ip2stat$BOARDNO c $BRDMAJOR $STSMINOR |
| X fi |
| X fi |
| X |
| X if test "$TTYMAJOR" != "" |
| X then |
| X PORTNO=$BOARDBASE |
| X |
| X for PORTNO in $MINORS |
| X do |
| X if test ! -c /dev/ttyF$PORTNO ; then |
| X # We got the hardware but no device - make it |
| X mknod /dev/ttyF$PORTNO c $TTYMAJOR $PORTNO |
| X fi |
| X done |
| X fi |
| X |
| X if test "$CUAMAJOR" != "" |
| X then |
| X PORTNO=$BOARDBASE |
| X |
| X for PORTNO in $MINORS |
| X do |
| X if test ! -c /dev/cuf$PORTNO ; then |
| X # We got the hardware but no device - make it |
| X mknod /dev/cuf$PORTNO c $CUAMAJOR $PORTNO |
| X fi |
| X done |
| X fi |
| done |
| X |
| Xexit 0 |
| SHAR_EOF |
| (set 20 01 10 29 10 32 01 'ip2mkdev'; eval "$shar_touch") && |
| chmod 0755 'ip2mkdev' || |
| $echo 'restore of' 'ip2mkdev' 'failed' |
| if ( md5sum --help 2>&1 | grep 'sage: md5sum \[' ) >/dev/null 2>&1 \ |
| && ( md5sum --version 2>&1 | grep -v 'textutils 1.12' ) >/dev/null; then |
| md5sum -c << SHAR_EOF >/dev/null 2>&1 \ |
| || $echo 'ip2mkdev:' 'MD5 check failed' |
| cb5717134509f38bad9fde6b1f79b4a4 ip2mkdev |
| SHAR_EOF |
| else |
| shar_count="`LC_ALL= LC_CTYPE= LANG= wc -c < 'ip2mkdev'`" |
| test 4251 -eq "$shar_count" || |
| $echo 'ip2mkdev:' 'original size' '4251,' 'current size' "$shar_count!" |
| fi |
| fi |
| rm -fr _sh17581 |
| exit 0 |