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RTFPS(4) Device Drivers Manual RTFPS(4)

rtfpsmultiplexing serial communications interface

rtfps0 at isa? port 0x1230 irq 10
com* at rtfps?

The rtfps driver provides support for IBM RT PC boards that multiplex together up to four EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.28) or RS-422A communications interfaces.

Each rtfps device is the master device for up to four com devices. The kernel configuration specifies these com devices as slave devices of the rtfps device, as shown in SYNOPSIS. The port specification for the rtfps device is used to compute the base addresses for the com subdevices.

/dev/tty0?
 

com(4), intro(4), isa(4)

The rtfps driver was written by Charles Hannum, based on the ast driver.

The rtfps driver is unlikely to work on non-EISA and non-PCI machines. The ISA bus only asserts 10 I/O address lines, and this is not enough.

Even on EISA and PCI machines, some address conflicts have been observed. On one machine, the second port always conflicted with something (though it's not clear what) and caused strange results. Disabling the second port in the kernel config allowed the other three ports to function correctly.

September 19, 2010 OpenBSD-5.4