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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:59:28 +0200
From:      "Morten Seeberg" <morten@seeberg.dk>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   4 seriel ports
Message-ID:  <001401beeb3e$21389a90$1600000a@SOS>

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Hi, AFAIR it is possible on x86 systems (or atleast windows and dos :) ) to
have 4 serial ports, which share 2 IRQs?? (I have 2 onboard serieal ports
and an xtra I/O card.
How is this done on BSD? And which restrictions would I have, in DOS i
remember, that it wasnt a good idea to put a mouse and a modem on 2 serial
ports, which share IRQ, maybe this problem is solved on newer computers.

So that:
COM1    IRQ4
COM2    IRQ3
COM3    IRQ4
COM4    IRQ3

This doesnt seem possible with the SIO driver (the man says so). But I hope
that it is possible? And where should I look?

I tried it with the following parameters:
options         "COM_MULTIPORT"
device          sio0    at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty
device          sio1    at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty
device          sio2    at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty
device          sio3    at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty

This is the result:
DMESG:
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff on isa
sio1: type 16550A
sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef on isa
sio2: type 16450
sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef on isa
sio3: type 16450
-----
fw.home:/root#cu -l /dev/cuaa2
Connected.
atz
Aug 20 18:21:29 fw /kernel: sio2: 1 more silo overflow (total 2)
Aug 20 18:21:29 fw /kernel: sio2: 1 more silo overflow (total 2)

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