Commit 2dbe616d authored by James Nelson's avatar James Nelson Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] riscom8: Update staus and documentation of driver

I could not locate the original author or any active support effort being
done.

This is definitely an orphaned driver.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Nelson <james4765@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent de8aa609
* 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 (pgmdsg@ibi.com)
(C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin
See file LICENSE for terms and conditions.
NOTE: English is not my native language.
......@@ -10,47 +17,20 @@ 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 insmod options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..."
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.
If you REALLY think you found a bug, send me e-mail, I hope I'll
fix it. For any other problems please ask support@sdlcomm.com.
5) SDL Communications WWW page is http://www.sdlcomm.com.
6) You can use the script at the end of this file to create RISCom/8 devices.
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.
-------------------------------cut here-------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
NORMAL_DEVICE=/dev/ttyL
CALLOUT_DEVICE=/dev/cuL
NORMAL_MAJOR=48
CALLOUT_MAJOR=49
echo "Creating devices... "
for i in 0 1 2 3; do
echo "Board No $[$i+1]"
for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
k=$[ 8 * $i + $j]
rm -f $NORMAL_DEVICE$k
mknod $NORMAL_DEVICE$k c $NORMAL_MAJOR $k
chmod a+rw $NORMAL_DEVICE$k
echo -n $NORMAL_DEVICE$k" "
rm -f $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k
mknod $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k c $CALLOUT_MAJOR $k
chmod a+rw $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k
echo $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k
done
done
echo "done."
-------------------------------cut here-------------------------------------
......@@ -1876,9 +1876,7 @@ L: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
RISCOM8 DRIVER
P: Dmitry Gorodchanin
L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
S: Orphan
RTLINUX REALTIME LINUX
P: Victor Yodaiken
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