NAME
zs —
Zilog 8530 (ZSCC) serial communications
driver
SYNOPSIS
zsc* at macobio?
zstty* at zsc?
DESCRIPTION
The zs is a Zilog 8530 serial interface
chip used in Sun workstations and Apple Macintosh systems. On most newer
Macintosh systems, the first port tty00 is connected to the internal modem.
The second port is either not connected, or may be connected to an IRDA
device (untested). It is possible to replace the internal modem on some
system with a real serial port using third party hardware adapters.
The zs driver supports all of the standard
tty(4) ioctl calls. The status of the DTR, RTS, CTS, and DCD signals
can be queried with TIOCMGET command, but, due to limitations in the
hardware, only the DTR and RTS signals can be modified with TIOCMSET,
TIOCMBIC, and TIOCMBIS
ioctl(2) commands.
FILES
- /dev/tty00
- /dev/tty01
- /dev/cua00
- /dev/cua01
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The zs driver first appeared in
4.4BSD. Support for the TIOCM*
ioctl(2)s appeared in OpenBSD 2.3.
BUGS
The zs driver now supports cua minor
devices, but with this known deficiency in the simultaneous
outgoing/incoming aspect of the driver: The first outgoing connection
succeeds, but second and subsequent connections fail, apparently due to a
getty hang. The hung getty apparently prevents the cua device from being
re-opened.