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diff --git a/Documentation/computone.txt b/Documentation/computone.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b1cf59b84d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/computone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,588 @@ +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. + +If you are using devfs, existing devices are automatically created within +the devfs name space. Normal devices will be tts/F0 - tts/F255 and callout +devices will be cua/F0 - cua/F255. With devfs installed, ip2mkdev will +create symbolic links in /dev from the old conventional names to the newer +devfs names as follows: + + /dev/ip2ipl[n] -> /dev/ip2/ipl[n] n = 0 - 3 + /dev/ip2stat[n] -> /dev/ip2/stat[n] n = 0 - 3 + /dev/ttyF[n] -> /dev/tts/F[n] n = 0 - 255 + /dev/cuf[n] -> /dev/cua/F[n] n = 0 - 255 + +Only devices for existing ports and boards will be created. + +IMPORTANT NOTE: The naming convention used for devfs by this driver +was changed from 1.2.12 to 1.2.13. The old naming convention was to +use ttf/%d for the tty device and cuf/%d for the cua device. That +has been changed to conform to an agreed-upon standard of placing +all the tty devices under tts. The device names are now tts/F%d for +the tty device and cua/F%d for the cua devices. If you were using +the older devfs names, you must update for the newer convention. + +You do not need to run ip2mkdev if you are using devfs and only want to +use the devfs native device names. + + +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. + +You do not need to run ip2mkdev if you are using devfs and only want to +use the devfs native device names. + + +6. DEVFS + +DEVFS is the DEVice File System available as an add on package for the +2.2.x kernels and available as a configuration option in 2.3.46 and higher. +Devfs allows for the automatic creation and management of device names +under control of the device drivers themselves. The Devfs namespace is +hierarchical and reduces the clutter present in the normal flat /dev +namespace. Devfs names and conventional device names may be intermixed. +A userspace daemon, devfsd, exists to allow for automatic creation and +management of symbolic links from the devfs name space to the conventional +names. More details on devfs can be found on the DEVFS home site at +<http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/> or in the file kernel +documentation files, .../linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README. + +If you are using devfs, existing devices are automatically created within +the devfs name space. Normal devices will be tts/F0 - tts/F255 and callout +devices will be cua/F0 - cua/F255. With devfs installed, ip2mkdev will +create symbolic links in /dev from the old conventional names to the newer +devfs names as follows: + + /dev/ip2ipl[n] -> /dev/ip2/ipl[n] n = 0 - 3 + /dev/ip2stat[n] -> /dev/ip2/stat[n] n = 0 - 3 + /dev/ttyF[n] -> /dev/tts/F[n] n = 0 - 255 + /dev/cuf[n] -> /dev/cua/F[n] n = 0 - 255 + +Only devices for existing ports and boards will be created. + +IMPORTANT NOTE: The naming convention used for devfs by this driver +was changed from 1.2.12 to 1.2.13. The old naming convention was to +use ttf/%d for the tty device and cuf/%d for the cua device. That +has been changed to conform to an agreed-upon standard of placing +all the tty devices under tts. The device names are now tts/F%d for +the tty device and cua/F%d for the cua devices. If you were using +the older devfs names, you must update for the newer convention. + +You do not need to run ip2mkdev if you are using devfs and only want to +use the devfs native device names. + + +7. 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. + + +8. 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/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 |