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.Dd May 17, 2000
.Dt CZ 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm cz
.Nd Cyclades-Z series multi-port serial adapter device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "cz* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device driver supports the Cyclades-Z series of multi-port serial adapters.
The Cyclades-Z is an intelligent serial controller comprising:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
PLX9060ES PCI bus interface
.It
Xilinx XC5204 FPGA
.It
IDT R3052 MIPS CPU
.El
.Pp
The MIPS CPU runs firmware provided by the device driver.  Communication
with the MIPS is performed by modifying data structures located in board
local RAM or host RAM.
.Pp
The Cyclades-Z comes in three basic flavors:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
Cyclades-8Zo rev. 1 -- This is an older 8-port board with no FPGA.  The
serial ports are provided by an octopus cable.
.It
Cyclades-8Zo rev. 2 -- This is the newer 8-port board.  The serial ports
are provided by an octopus cable.
.It
Cyclades-Ze -- This is the expandable version of the Cyclades-Z.  It uses
an HD-50 SCSI cable to connect the board to a 1U rack mountable serial
expansion box.  Each box has 16 RJ45 serial ports, and up to 4 boxes may
be chained together, for a total of 64 ports.  Boxes 3 and 4 require their
own external power supply, otherwise the firmware will refuse to start
(as it cannot communicate with the UARTs in those boxes).
.El
.Pp
The Cyclades-Z has several features to improve performance under
high serial I/O load:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
The board may operate in interrupt-driven mode or polled mode to reduce
interrupt load.
.It
Each channel has a large input and output buffer.
.It
Each channel may be programmed to generate an interrupt based on
reception of a specific character, e.g. a PPP End-Of-Frame character.
.It
The MIPS CPU on the board performs all flow-control handling.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It Pa /dev/ttyCZnnnn -- dial-in (normal) TTY device
.It Pa /dev/dtyCZnnnn -- dial-out TTY device
.El
.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.\" XXX too be done.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr termios 4 ,
.Xr tty 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Jason R. Thorpe Aq thorpej@zembu.com
and
.An Bill Studenmund Aq wrstuden@zembu.com
of Zembu Labs, Inc.
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
driver does not currently implement communication via host RAM.  While
this may improve performance by reducing the number of PCI memory
space read/write cycles, it is not straightforward to implement with
the current
.Xr bus_dma 9
API.
.Pp
Interrupt mode has not been tested.
.Pp
There is no support for reading or writing the EEPROM connected to
the PLX PCI bus controller.