hayes-esp.txt
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- HAYES ESP DRIVER VERSION 2.1
- A big thanks to the people at Hayes, especially Alan Adamson. Their support
- has enabled me to provide enhancements to the driver.
- Please report your experiences with this driver to me (arobinso@nyx.net). I
- am looking for both positive and negative feedback.
- *** IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR 2.1 ***
- Support for PIO mode. Five situations will cause PIO mode to be used:
- 1) A multiport card is detected. PIO mode will always be used. (8 port cards
- do not support DMA).
- 2) The DMA channel is set to an invalid value (anything other than 1 or 3).
- 3) The DMA buffer/channel could not be allocated. The port will revert to PIO
- mode until it is reopened.
- 4) Less than a specified number of bytes need to be transferred to/from the
- FIFOs. PIO mode will be used for that transfer only.
- 5) A port needs to do a DMA transfer and another port is already using the
- DMA channel. PIO mode will be used for that transfer only.
- Since the Hayes ESP seems to conflict with other cards (notably sound cards)
- when using DMA, DMA is turned off by default. To use DMA, it must be turned
- on explicitly, either with the "dma=" option described below or with
- setserial. A multiport card can be forced into DMA mode by using setserial;
- however, most multiport cards don't support DMA.
- The latest version of setserial allows the enhanced configuration of the ESP
- card to be viewed and modified.
- ***
- This package contains the files needed to compile a module to support the Hayes
- ESP card. The drivers are basically a modified version of the serial drivers.
- Features:
- - Uses the enhanced mode of the ESP card, allowing a wider range of
- interrupts and features than compatibility mode
- - Uses DMA and 16 bit PIO mode to transfer data to and from the ESP's FIFOs,
- reducing CPU load
- - Supports primary and secondary ports
- If the driver is compiled as a module, the IRQs to use can be specified by
- using the irq= option. The format is:
- irq=[0x100],[0x140],[0x180],[0x200],[0x240],[0x280],[0x300],[0x380]
- The address in brackets is the base address of the card. The IRQ of
- nonexistent cards can be set to 0. If an IRQ of a card that does exist is set
- to 0, the driver will attempt to guess at the correct IRQ. For example, to set
- the IRQ of the card at address 0x300 to 12, the insmod command would be:
- insmod esp irq=0,0,0,0,0,0,12,0
- The custom divisor can be set by using the divisor= option. The format is the
- same as for the irq= option. Each divisor value is a series of hex digits,
- with each digit representing the divisor to use for a corresponding port. The
- divisor value is constructed RIGHT TO LEFT. Specifying a nonzero divisor value
- will automatically set the spd_cust flag. To calculate the divisor to use for
- a certain baud rate, divide the port's base baud (generally 921600) by the
- desired rate. For example, to set the divisor of the primary port at 0x300 to
- 4 and the divisor of the secondary port at 0x308 to 8, the insmod command would
- be:
- insmod esp divisor=0,0,0,0,0,0,0x84,0
- The dma= option can be used to set the DMA channel. The channel can be either
- 1 or 3. Specifying any other value will force the driver to use PIO mode.
- For example, to set the DMA channel to 3, the insmod command would be:
- insmod esp dma=3
- The rx_trigger= and tx_trigger= options can be used to set the FIFO trigger
- levels. They specify when the ESP card should send an interrupt. Larger
- values will decrease the number of interrupts; however, a value too high may
- result in data loss. Valid values are 1 through 1023, with 768 being the
- default. For example, to set the receive trigger level to 512 bytes and the
- transmit trigger level to 700 bytes, the insmod command would be:
- insmod esp rx_trigger=512 tx_trigger=700
- The flow_off= and flow_on= options can be used to set the hardware flow off/
- flow on levels. The flow on level must be lower than the flow off level, and
- the flow off level should be higher than rx_trigger. Valid values are 1
- through 1023, with 1016 being the default flow off level and 944 being the
- default flow on level. For example, to set the flow off level to 1000 bytes
- and the flow on level to 935 bytes, the insmod command would be:
- insmod esp flow_off=1000 flow_on=935
- The rx_timeout= option can be used to set the receive timeout value. This
- value indicates how long after receiving the last character that the ESP card
- should wait before signalling an interrupt. Valid values are 0 though 255,
- with 128 being the default. A value too high will increase latency, and a
- value too low will cause unnecessary interrupts. For example, to set the
- receive timeout to 255, the insmod command would be:
- insmod esp rx_timeout=255
- The pio_threshold= option sets the threshold (in number of characters) for
- using PIO mode instead of DMA mode. For example, if this value is 32,
- transfers of 32 bytes or less will always use PIO mode.
- insmod esp pio_threshold=32
- Multiple options can be listed on the insmod command line by separating each
- option with a space. For example:
- insmod esp dma=3 trigger=512
- The esp module can be automatically loaded when needed. To cause this to
- happen, add the following lines to /etc/modules.conf (replacing the last line
- with options for your configuration):
- alias char-major-57 esp
- alias char-major-58 esp
- options esp irq=0,0,0,0,0,0,3,0 divisor=0,0,0,0,0,0,0x4,0
- You may also need to run 'depmod -a'.
- Devices must be created manually. To create the devices, note the output from
- the module after it is inserted. The output will appear in the location where
- kernel messages usually appear (usually /var/adm/messages). Create two devices
- for each 'tty' mentioned, one with major of 57 and the other with major of 58.
- The minor number should be the same as the tty number reported. The commands
- would be (replace ? with the tty number):
- mknod /dev/ttyP? c 57 ?
- mknod /dev/cup? c 58 ?
- For example, if the following line appears:
- Oct 24 18:17:23 techno kernel: ttyP8 at 0x0140 (irq = 3) is an ESP primary port
- ...two devices should be created:
- mknod /dev/ttyP8 c 57 8
- mknod /dev/cup8 c 58 8
- You may need to set the permissions on the devices:
- chmod 666 /dev/ttyP*
- chmod 666 /dev/cup*
- The ESP module and the serial module should not conflict (they can be used at
- the same time). After the ESP module has been loaded the ports on the ESP card
- will no longer be accessible by the serial driver.
- If I/O errors are experienced when accessing the port, check for IRQ and DMA
- conflicts ('cat /proc/interrupts' and 'cat /proc/dma' for a list of IRQs and
- DMAs currently in use).
- Enjoy!
- Andrew J. Robinson <arobinso@nyx.net>