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SCC(4)                  NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                 SCC(4)


NAME

     scc -- Zilog 8530 Serial Communications Controller interface


SYNOPSIS

     scc* at ioasic? offset ?


DESCRIPTION

     The scc driver provides support for the Zilog 8530 Serial Communications
     Controller (SCC) via the IOASIC found on DECstation 5000 models in the
     /100, /20, and /240 series (supported by NetBSD/pmax).

     Each SCC device has two serial ports.  The DECstation 5000 model 20 pro-
     vides one SCC device.  Other models provide two, but one port of each
     device is dedicated to mouse and keyboard input, respectively.

     Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates:
     50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200,
     38400, or 57600.

     Speeds up to 230400 are supported by the chip and the motherboard, but
     speeds higher than 57600 do not work reliably without an external clock
     signal.


FILES

     /dev/ttya
     /dev/ttyb
     /dev/ttyc
     /dev/ttyd

     The mapping from units to serial-hardware outlets is idiosyncratic.  The
     even ports are wired serial connectors and the odd-numbered ports are
     reserved for mouse and keyboard.

     On machines with one port like Personal DECstations, the single device is
     ttya.

     On the 5000/1xx and 5000/2xx, the first serial port (default serial con-
     sole) is ttyc and the second port is ttya.


SEE ALSO

     intro(4), ioasic(4), ttys(5), MAKEDEV(8)


HISTORY

     The scc driver first appeared in 4.4BSD.

     The scc driver was also used for the IOASIC SCC found in DEC Alpha model
     3000 TurboCHANNEL based systems; NetBSD/alpha has since been converted to
     use the machine-independent zstty(4).


BUGS

     The IOASIC provides internal DMA channels that can be programmed to
     transfer up to 4096 bytes of data into, or out, of an SCC without further
     software intervention.  This feature of the IOASIC is not yet supported.

     The mapping from device-special files (major and minor number) to chip
     and port is arguably backwards.  ULTRIX tries to hide the hardware map-
     ping, but NetBSD does not.  Users wanting to use ULTRIX compatible tty
     names /dev/tty0 and /dev/tty1 for the scc comm-port lines should make
     links or device-special files which match their hardware setup.

NetBSD 4.0                      April 24, 2003                      NetBSD 4.0