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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/ast.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/ast.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/ast.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d327a997 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/ast.4 @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: ast.4,v 1.13 2008/05/21 19:05:51 kettenis Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: ast.4,v 1.7 1996/03/16 00:07:07 thorpej Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the Systems Programming Group of the University of Utah Computer +.\" Science Department. +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)dca.4 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 +.\" from: Id: com.4,v 1.1 1993/08/06 11:19:07 cgd Exp +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 21 2008 $ +.Dt AST 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ast +.Nd multiplexing serial communications interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "ast0 at isa? port 0x1a0 irq 5" +.Cd "ast1 at isa? port 0x2a0 irq 6" +.Cd "com* at ast?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for boards that multiplex together up to four +.Tn EIA +.Tn RS-232C +.Pf ( Tn CCITT +.Tn V.28 ) +communications interfaces. +Apparently the original master of hardware using this multiplexing protocol +was AST. +.Pp +Each +.Nm +device is the master device for up to four +.Nm com +devices. +The kernel configuration specifies these +.Nm com +devices as slave devices of the +.Nm +device, as shown in +.Sx SYNOPSIS . +The slave ID given for each +.Nm com +device determines which bit in the interrupt multiplexing register is +tested to find interrupts for that device. +The +.Tn port +specification for the +.Nm +device is used to compute the base addresses for the +.Nm com +subdevices and the port for the interrupt multiplexing register. +.Pp +On a real AST card, the jumpers are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width xxxxx +.It SW1-1 +Turn ON for irq 2. +Default is OFF. +.It SW1-2 +Turn ON for irq 3. +Default is OFF. +.It SW1-3 +Turn ON for irq 4. +Default is OFF. +.It SW2-1 +Turn ON for irq 5. +This is ON for the first card, OFF otherwise. +.It SW2-2 +Turn ON for irq 6. +This is ON for the second card, OFF otherwise. +.It SW2-3 +Turn ON for irq 7. +Default is OFF. +.It SW3-1 +.Dq Compatible mode . +The +.Nm ast +driver needs extended mode, so leave this OFF. +.It SW3-2 +I/O Address. +In extended mode, this should be OFF for the first card at +0x1a0-0x1a7 and ON for the second card at 0x2a0-0x2a7. +.It SW3-3 +Interrupt sharing. +Default is OFF. +.It SW3-4 +Reserved, must be OFF. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Pa +.It Pa /dev/tty0? +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr com 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr isa 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver was written by Roland McGrath and placed into the public +domain. |
