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