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Computone Intelliport II/Plus Multiport Serial Driver

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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 

Primary Author: Doug McNash

Support: support@computone.com

Fixes and Updates: Mike Warfield 

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/modules.conf, or for specification on the modprobe

                command line.

        Note that the /etc/modules.conf file is named /etc/conf.modules

                with older versions of the module utilities.

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/modules.conf if needed (module).

        or both to match this setting.

d) Run "make dep"

e) Run "make modules"

f) Run "make modules_install"

g) Run "/sbin/depmod -a"

h) install driver using `modprobe ip2 ` (options listed below)

i) 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 dep"

e) Run "make zImage" or whatever target you prefer.

f) mv /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage to /boot.

g) Add new config for this kernel into /etc/lilo.conf, run "lilo"

        or copy to a floppy disk and boot from that floppy disk.

h) Reboot using this kernel

i) 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/modules.conf or both.

The options line is equivalent to the command line and takes precidence over

what is in ip2.c.

/etc/modules.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 depend

        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

 or in the file kernel

documentation files, .../linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/REAME.

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 /usr/src/linux/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 .

# 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 harware 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 harware 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