NAME

dhu − DHU-11 communications multiplexer

SYNOPSIS

/sys/conf/SYSTEM:
NDHUdhu_units# DHU11
 /etc/dtab:
#NameUnit#AddrVectorBrHandler(s) # Comments
du?1600203105dhurint dhuxint # dhu11 terminal mux
 major device number(s):
raw: 4
minor device encoding:
bits 0017 specify line on DHU unit
bits 0060 specify DHU unit
bit  0100 specify RTS/CTS flow control
bit  0200 specifies non-blocking open (“CD always on”)

DESCRIPTION

A DHU-11 provides 16 communication lines. 

Each line attached to the DHU-11 communications multiplexer behaves as described in tty(4). Input and output for each line may independently be set to run at any of 13 speeds (50, 200 and 38400 baud are not available); see tty(4) for the encoding.

Bit 0200 of the minor device number for DHU lines may be set to say that a line is not properly connected, and that the line should be treated as hard-wired with carrier always present.  Thus creating the special character device node "4, 130" via mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 130 would cause line ttyS2 to be treated in this way.  Turning on bit 6 (adding 64) to the minor device number via mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 194 enables RTS/CTS flow control. 

The DHU-11 driver normally uses input silos and delays receiver interrupts by 20 milliseconds rather than taking an interrupt on each input character. 

FILES

/dev/tty[S-Z][0-9a-f]

SEE ALSO

tty(4)

DIAGNOSTICS

dhu(%d,%d) NXM.  No response from UNIBUS on a DMA transfer within a timeout period.  This has never been observed on a PDP-11 and is believed to be a carryover from the VAX driver when it was ported.  It is not serious. 

dhu%d %d overruns.  The character input silo overflowed before it could be serviced.  This message is printed only at line close time rather than on each overrun error.  Kernel printf’s are not interrupt driven and caused more overruns by blocking interrupts for lengthy periods of time. 

NOTES

The driver currently does not make full use of the hardware capabilities of the DHU-11, for dealing with XON/XOFF flow-control or hard-wired lines for example. 

The 4 40-way cables are a pain. 

2nd Berkeley Distribution  —  May 31, 1997