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1 | * NOTE - This is an unmaintained driver. Lantronix, which bought Stallion | ||
2 | technologies, is not active in driver maintenance, and they have no information | ||
3 | on when or if they will have a 2.6 driver. | ||
4 | |||
5 | James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> - 12-12-2004 | ||
6 | |||
7 | Stallion Multiport Serial Driver Readme | ||
8 | --------------------------------------- | ||
9 | |||
10 | Copyright (C) 1994-1999, Stallion Technologies. | ||
11 | |||
12 | Version: 5.5.1 | ||
13 | Date: 28MAR99 | ||
14 | |||
15 | |||
16 | |||
17 | 1. INTRODUCTION | ||
18 | |||
19 | There are two drivers that work with the different families of Stallion | ||
20 | multiport serial boards. One is for the Stallion smart boards - that is | ||
21 | EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 and EasyConnection 8/64-PCI, the other for | ||
22 | the true Stallion intelligent multiport boards - EasyConnection 8/64 | ||
23 | (ISA, EISA, MCA), EasyConnection/RA-PCI, ONboard and Brumby. | ||
24 | |||
25 | If you are using any of the Stallion intelligent multiport boards (Brumby, | ||
26 | ONboard, EasyConnection 8/64 (ISA, EISA, MCA), EasyConnection/RA-PCI) with | ||
27 | Linux you will need to get the driver utility package. This contains a | ||
28 | firmware loader and the firmware images necessary to make the devices operate. | ||
29 | |||
30 | The Stallion Technologies ftp site, ftp.stallion.com, will always have | ||
31 | the latest version of the driver utility package. | ||
32 | |||
33 | ftp://ftp.stallion.com/drivers/ata5/Linux/ata-linux-550.tar.gz | ||
34 | |||
35 | As of the printing of this document the latest version of the driver | ||
36 | utility package is 5.5.0. If a later version is now available then you | ||
37 | should use the latest version. | ||
38 | |||
39 | If you are using the EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 or EasyConnection 8/64-PCI | ||
40 | boards then you don't need this package, although it does have a serial stats | ||
41 | display program. | ||
42 | |||
43 | If you require DIP switch settings, EISA or MCA configuration files, or any | ||
44 | other information related to Stallion boards then have a look at Stallion's | ||
45 | web pages at http://www.stallion.com. | ||
46 | |||
47 | |||
48 | |||
49 | 2. INSTALLATION | ||
50 | |||
51 | The drivers can be used as loadable modules or compiled into the kernel. | ||
52 | You can choose which when doing a "config" on the kernel. | ||
53 | |||
54 | All ISA, EISA and MCA boards that you want to use need to be configured into | ||
55 | the driver(s). All PCI boards will be automatically detected when you load | ||
56 | the driver - so they do not need to be entered into the driver(s) | ||
57 | configuration structure. Note that kernel PCI support is required to use PCI | ||
58 | boards. | ||
59 | |||
60 | There are two methods of configuring ISA, EISA and MCA boards into the drivers. | ||
61 | If using the driver as a loadable module then the simplest method is to pass | ||
62 | the driver configuration as module arguments. The other method is to modify | ||
63 | the driver source to add configuration lines for each board in use. | ||
64 | |||
65 | If you have pre-built Stallion driver modules then the module argument | ||
66 | configuration method should be used. A lot of Linux distributions come with | ||
67 | pre-built driver modules in /lib/modules/X.Y.Z/misc for the kernel in use. | ||
68 | That makes things pretty simple to get going. | ||
69 | |||
70 | |||
71 | 2.1 MODULE DRIVER CONFIGURATION: | ||
72 | |||
73 | The simplest configuration for modules is to use the module load arguments | ||
74 | to configure any ISA, EISA or MCA boards. PCI boards are automatically | ||
75 | detected, so do not need any additional configuration at all. | ||
76 | |||
77 | If using EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 ISA or MCA, or EasyConnection 8/63-PCI | ||
78 | boards then use the "stallion" driver module, Otherwise if you are using | ||
79 | an EasyConnection 8/64 ISA, EISA or MCA, EasyConnection/RA-PCI, ONboard, | ||
80 | Brumby or original Stallion board then use the "istallion" driver module. | ||
81 | |||
82 | Typically to load up the smart board driver use: | ||
83 | |||
84 | modprobe stallion | ||
85 | |||
86 | This will load the EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 driver. It will output a | ||
87 | message to say that it loaded and print the driver version number. It will | ||
88 | also print out whether it found the configured boards or not. These messages | ||
89 | may not appear on the console, but typically are always logged to | ||
90 | /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog files - depending on how the klogd and | ||
91 | syslogd daemons are setup on your system. | ||
92 | |||
93 | To load the intelligent board driver use: | ||
94 | |||
95 | modprobe istallion | ||
96 | |||
97 | It will output similar messages to the smart board driver. | ||
98 | |||
99 | If not using an auto-detectable board type (that is a PCI board) then you | ||
100 | will also need to supply command line arguments to the modprobe command | ||
101 | when loading the driver. The general form of the configuration argument is | ||
102 | |||
103 | board?=<name>[,<ioaddr>[,<addr>][,<irq>]] | ||
104 | |||
105 | where: | ||
106 | |||
107 | board? -- specifies the arbitrary board number of this board, | ||
108 | can be in the range 0 to 3. | ||
109 | |||
110 | name -- textual name of this board. The board name is the common | ||
111 | board name, or any "shortened" version of that. The board | ||
112 | type number may also be used here. | ||
113 | |||
114 | ioaddr -- specifies the I/O address of this board. This argument is | ||
115 | optional, but should generally be specified. | ||
116 | |||
117 | addr -- optional second address argument. Some board types require | ||
118 | a second I/O address, some require a memory address. The | ||
119 | exact meaning of this argument depends on the board type. | ||
120 | |||
121 | irq -- optional IRQ line used by this board. | ||
122 | |||
123 | Up to 4 board configuration arguments can be specified on the load line. | ||
124 | Here is some examples: | ||
125 | |||
126 | modprobe stallion board0=easyio,0x2a0,5 | ||
127 | |||
128 | This configures an EasyIO board as board 0 at I/O address 0x2a0 and IRQ 5. | ||
129 | |||
130 | modprobe istallion board3=ec8/64,0x2c0,0xcc000 | ||
131 | |||
132 | This configures an EasyConnection 8/64 ISA as board 3 at I/O address 0x2c0 at | ||
133 | memory address 0xcc000. | ||
134 | |||
135 | modprobe stallion board1=ec8/32-at,0x2a0,0x280,10 | ||
136 | |||
137 | This configures an EasyConnection 8/32 ISA board at primary I/O address 0x2a0, | ||
138 | secondary address 0x280 and IRQ 10. | ||
139 | |||
140 | You will probably want to enter this module load and configuration information | ||
141 | into your system startup scripts so that the drivers are loaded and configured | ||
142 | on each system boot. Typically the start up script would be something like | ||
143 | /etc/modprobe.conf. | ||
144 | |||
145 | |||
146 | 2.2 STATIC DRIVER CONFIGURATION: | ||
147 | |||
148 | For static driver configuration you need to modify the driver source code. | ||
149 | Entering ISA, EISA and MCA boards into the driver(s) configuration structure | ||
150 | involves editing the driver(s) source file. It's pretty easy if you follow | ||
151 | the instructions below. Both drivers can support up to 4 boards. The smart | ||
152 | card driver (the stallion.c driver) supports any combination of EasyIO and | ||
153 | EasyConnection 8/32 boards (up to a total of 4). The intelligent driver | ||
154 | supports any combination of ONboards, Brumbys, Stallions and EasyConnection | ||
155 | 8/64 (ISA and EISA) boards (up to a total of 4). | ||
156 | |||
157 | To set up the driver(s) for the boards that you want to use you need to | ||
158 | edit the appropriate driver file and add configuration entries. | ||
159 | |||
160 | If using EasyIO or EasyConnection 8/32 ISA or MCA boards, | ||
161 | In drivers/char/stallion.c: | ||
162 | - find the definition of the stl_brdconf array (of structures) | ||
163 | near the top of the file | ||
164 | - modify this to match the boards you are going to install | ||
165 | (the comments before this structure should help) | ||
166 | - save and exit | ||
167 | |||
168 | If using ONboard, Brumby, Stallion or EasyConnection 8/64 (ISA or EISA) | ||
169 | boards, | ||
170 | In drivers/char/istallion.c: | ||
171 | - find the definition of the stli_brdconf array (of structures) | ||
172 | near the top of the file | ||
173 | - modify this to match the boards you are going to install | ||
174 | (the comments before this structure should help) | ||
175 | - save and exit | ||
176 | |||
177 | Once you have set up the board configurations then you are ready to build | ||
178 | the kernel or modules. | ||
179 | |||
180 | When the new kernel is booted, or the loadable module loaded then the | ||
181 | driver will emit some kernel trace messages about whether the configured | ||
182 | boards were detected or not. Depending on how your system logger is set | ||
183 | up these may come out on the console, or just be logged to | ||
184 | /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog. You should check the messages to | ||
185 | confirm that all is well. | ||
186 | |||
187 | |||
188 | 2.3 SHARING INTERRUPTS | ||
189 | |||
190 | It is possible to share interrupts between multiple EasyIO and | ||
191 | EasyConnection 8/32 boards in an EISA system. To do this you must be using | ||
192 | static driver configuration, modifying the driver source code to add driver | ||
193 | configuration. Then a couple of extra things are required: | ||
194 | |||
195 | 1. When entering the board resources into the stallion.c file you need to | ||
196 | mark the boards as using level triggered interrupts. Do this by replacing | ||
197 | the "0" entry at field position 6 (the last field) in the board | ||
198 | configuration structure with a "1". (This is the structure that defines | ||
199 | the board type, I/O locations, etc. for each board). All boards that are | ||
200 | sharing an interrupt must be set this way, and each board should have the | ||
201 | same interrupt number specified here as well. Now build the module or | ||
202 | kernel as you would normally. | ||
203 | |||
204 | 2. When physically installing the boards into the system you must enter | ||
205 | the system EISA configuration utility. You will need to install the EISA | ||
206 | configuration files for *all* the EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 boards | ||
207 | that are sharing interrupts. The Stallion EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 | ||
208 | EISA configuration files required are supplied by Stallion Technologies | ||
209 | on the EASY Utilities floppy diskette (usually supplied in the box with | ||
210 | the board when purchased. If not, you can pick it up from Stallion's FTP | ||
211 | site, ftp.stallion.com). You will need to edit the board resources to | ||
212 | choose level triggered interrupts, and make sure to set each board's | ||
213 | interrupt to the same IRQ number. | ||
214 | |||
215 | You must complete both the above steps for this to work. When you reboot | ||
216 | or load the driver your EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 boards will be | ||
217 | sharing interrupts. | ||
218 | |||
219 | |||
220 | 2.4 USING HIGH SHARED MEMORY | ||
221 | |||
222 | The EasyConnection 8/64-EI, ONboard and Stallion boards are capable of | ||
223 | using shared memory addresses above the usual 640K - 1Mb range. The ONboard | ||
224 | ISA and the Stallion boards can be programmed to use memory addresses up to | ||
225 | 16Mb (the ISA bus addressing limit), and the EasyConnection 8/64-EI and | ||
226 | ONboard/E can be programmed for memory addresses up to 4Gb (the EISA bus | ||
227 | addressing limit). | ||
228 | |||
229 | The higher than 1Mb memory addresses are fully supported by this driver. | ||
230 | Just enter the address as you normally would for a lower than 1Mb address | ||
231 | (in the driver's board configuration structure). | ||
232 | |||
233 | |||
234 | |||
235 | 2.5 TROUBLE SHOOTING | ||
236 | |||
237 | If a board is not found by the driver but is actually in the system then the | ||
238 | most likely problem is that the I/O address is wrong. Change the module load | ||
239 | argument for the loadable module form. Or change it in the driver stallion.c | ||
240 | or istallion.c configuration structure and rebuild the kernel or modules, or | ||
241 | change it on the board. | ||
242 | |||
243 | On EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 boards the IRQ is software programmable, so | ||
244 | if there is a conflict you may need to change the IRQ used for a board. There | ||
245 | are no interrupts to worry about for ONboard, Brumby or EasyConnection 8/64 | ||
246 | (ISA, EISA and MCA) boards. The memory region on EasyConnection 8/64 and | ||
247 | ONboard boards is software programmable, but not on the Brumby boards. | ||
248 | |||
249 | |||
250 | |||
251 | 3. USING THE DRIVERS | ||
252 | |||
253 | 3.1 INTELLIGENT DRIVER OPERATION | ||
254 | |||
255 | The intelligent boards also need to have their "firmware" code downloaded | ||
256 | to them. This is done via a user level application supplied in the driver | ||
257 | utility package called "stlload". Compile this program wherever you dropped | ||
258 | the package files, by typing "make". In its simplest form you can then type | ||
259 | |||
260 | ./stlload -i cdk.sys | ||
261 | |||
262 | in this directory and that will download board 0 (assuming board 0 is an | ||
263 | EasyConnection 8/64 or EasyConnection/RA board). To download to an | ||
264 | ONboard, Brumby or Stallion do: | ||
265 | |||
266 | ./stlload -i 2681.sys | ||
267 | |||
268 | Normally you would want all boards to be downloaded as part of the standard | ||
269 | system startup. To achieve this, add one of the lines above into the | ||
270 | /etc/rc.d/rc.S or /etc/rc.d/rc.serial file. To download each board just add | ||
271 | the "-b <brd-number>" option to the line. You will need to download code for | ||
272 | every board. You should probably move the stlload program into a system | ||
273 | directory, such as /usr/sbin. Also, the default location of the cdk.sys image | ||
274 | file in the stlload down-loader is /usr/lib/stallion. Create that directory | ||
275 | and put the cdk.sys and 2681.sys files in it. (It's a convenient place to put | ||
276 | them anyway). As an example your /etc/rc.d/rc.S file might have the | ||
277 | following lines added to it (if you had 3 boards): | ||
278 | |||
279 | /usr/sbin/stlload -b 0 -i /usr/lib/stallion/cdk.sys | ||
280 | /usr/sbin/stlload -b 1 -i /usr/lib/stallion/2681.sys | ||
281 | /usr/sbin/stlload -b 2 -i /usr/lib/stallion/2681.sys | ||
282 | |||
283 | The image files cdk.sys and 2681.sys are specific to the board types. The | ||
284 | cdk.sys will only function correctly on an EasyConnection 8/64 board. Similarly | ||
285 | the 2681.sys image fill only operate on ONboard, Brumby and Stallion boards. | ||
286 | If you load the wrong image file into a board it will fail to start up, and | ||
287 | of course the ports will not be operational! | ||
288 | |||
289 | If you are using the modularized version of the driver you might want to put | ||
290 | the modprobe calls in the startup script as well (before the download lines | ||
291 | obviously). | ||
292 | |||
293 | |||
294 | 3.2 USING THE SERIAL PORTS | ||
295 | |||
296 | Once the driver is installed you will need to setup some device nodes to | ||
297 | access the serial ports. The simplest method is to use the /dev/MAKEDEV program. | ||
298 | It will automatically create device entries for Stallion boards. This will | ||
299 | create the normal serial port devices as /dev/ttyE# where# is the port number | ||
300 | starting from 0. A bank of 64 minor device numbers is allocated to each board, | ||
301 | so the first port on the second board is port 64,etc. A set of callout type | ||
302 | devices may also be created. They are created as the devices /dev/cue# where # | ||
303 | is the same as for the ttyE devices. | ||
304 | |||
305 | For the most part the Stallion driver tries to emulate the standard PC system | ||
306 | COM ports and the standard Linux serial driver. The idea is that you should | ||
307 | be able to use Stallion board ports and COM ports interchangeably without | ||
308 | modifying anything but the device name. Anything that doesn't work like that | ||
309 | should be considered a bug in this driver! | ||
310 | |||
311 | If you look at the driver code you will notice that it is fairly closely | ||
312 | based on the Linux serial driver (linux/drivers/char/serial.c). This is | ||
313 | intentional, obviously this is the easiest way to emulate its behavior! | ||
314 | |||
315 | Since this driver tries to emulate the standard serial ports as much as | ||
316 | possible, most system utilities should work as they do for the standard | ||
317 | COM ports. Most importantly "stty" works as expected and "setserial" can | ||
318 | also be used (excepting the ability to auto-configure the I/O and IRQ | ||
319 | addresses of boards). Higher baud rates are supported in the usual fashion | ||
320 | through setserial or using the CBAUDEX extensions. Note that the EasyIO and | ||
321 | EasyConnection (all types) support at least 57600 and 115200 baud. The newer | ||
322 | EasyConnection XP modules and new EasyIO boards support 230400 and 460800 | ||
323 | baud as well. The older boards including ONboard and Brumby support a | ||
324 | maximum baud rate of 38400. | ||
325 | |||
326 | If you are unfamiliar with how to use serial ports, then get the Serial-HOWTO | ||
327 | by Greg Hankins. It will explain everything you need to know! | ||
328 | |||
329 | |||
330 | |||
331 | 4. NOTES | ||
332 | |||
333 | You can use both drivers at once if you have a mix of board types installed | ||
334 | in a system. However to do this you will need to change the major numbers | ||
335 | used by one of the drivers. Currently both drivers use major numbers 24, 25 | ||
336 | and 28 for their devices. Change one driver to use some other major numbers, | ||
337 | and then modify the mkdevnods script to make device nodes based on those new | ||
338 | major numbers. For example, you could change the istallion.c driver to use | ||
339 | major numbers 60, 61 and 62. You will also need to create device nodes with | ||
340 | different names for the ports, for example ttyF# and cuf#. | ||
341 | |||
342 | The original Stallion board is no longer supported by Stallion Technologies. | ||
343 | Although it is known to work with the istallion driver. | ||
344 | |||
345 | Finding a free physical memory address range can be a problem. The older | ||
346 | boards like the Stallion and ONboard need large areas (64K or even 128K), so | ||
347 | they can be very difficult to get into a system. If you have 16 Mb of RAM | ||
348 | then you have no choice but to put them somewhere in the 640K -> 1Mb range. | ||
349 | ONboards require 64K, so typically 0xd0000 is good, or 0xe0000 on some | ||
350 | systems. If you have an original Stallion board, "V4.0" or Rev.O, then you | ||
351 | need a 64K memory address space, so again 0xd0000 and 0xe0000 are good. | ||
352 | Older Stallion boards are a much bigger problem. They need 128K of address | ||
353 | space and must be on a 128K boundary. If you don't have a VGA card then | ||
354 | 0xc0000 might be usable - there is really no other place you can put them | ||
355 | below 1Mb. | ||
356 | |||
357 | Both the ONboard and old Stallion boards can use higher memory addresses as | ||
358 | well, but you must have less than 16Mb of RAM to be able to use them. Usual | ||
359 | high memory addresses used include 0xec0000 and 0xf00000. | ||
360 | |||
361 | The Brumby boards only require 16Kb of address space, so you can usually | ||
362 | squeeze them in somewhere. Common addresses are 0xc8000, 0xcc000, or in | ||
363 | the 0xd0000 range. EasyConnection 8/64 boards are even better, they only | ||
364 | require 4Kb of address space, again usually 0xc8000, 0xcc000 or 0xd0000 | ||
365 | are good. | ||
366 | |||
367 | If you are using an EasyConnection 8/64-EI or ONboard/E then usually the | ||
368 | 0xd0000 or 0xe0000 ranges are the best options below 1Mb. If neither of | ||
369 | them can be used then the high memory support to use the really high address | ||
370 | ranges is the best option. Typically the 2Gb range is convenient for them, | ||
371 | and gets them well out of the way. | ||
372 | |||
373 | The ports of the EasyIO-8M board do not have DCD or DTR signals. So these | ||
374 | ports cannot be used as real modem devices. Generally, when using these | ||
375 | ports you should only use the cueX devices. | ||
376 | |||
377 | The driver utility package contains a couple of very useful programs. One | ||
378 | is a serial port statistics collection and display program - very handy | ||
379 | for solving serial port problems. The other is an extended option setting | ||
380 | program that works with the intelligent boards. | ||
381 | |||
382 | |||
383 | |||
384 | 5. DISCLAIMER | ||
385 | |||
386 | The information contained in this document is believed to be accurate and | ||
387 | reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by Stallion Technologies | ||
388 | Pty. Ltd. for its use, nor any infringements of patents or other rights | ||
389 | of third parties resulting from its use. Stallion Technologies reserves | ||
390 | the right to modify the design of its products and will endeavour to change | ||
391 | the information in manuals and accompanying documentation accordingly. | ||
392 | |||