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