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Digi International driver package for the PC/Xe, PC/Xi, PC/Xr, PC/Xem as well
the EISA and PCI variants of these boards where applicable.
Copyright (C) 1996 Digi International.  Written by Ronnie Sanford digilnux@dgii.com

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This document describes the software used with the Digi/Linux driver package.
The four user programs listed below are described in this document:

  1.  digiConfig   -> Application that configures the Digi driver.

  2.  digiDload    -> Application which initializes the Digi hardware.

  3.  buildPCI     -> Application which provides the user a method of
                      building device nodes for PCI devices. 

  4.  ditty        -> Application which provides the user a method of
                      configuring terminal options on Digi hardware.



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1.  Configuring driver/kernel for Digi products
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   The Digi driver must be configured each time Digi hardware is added
   or removed.  There are two supported methods of doing this.  The
   first method configures the driver dynamically at boot time but requires
   the user to utilize the lilo loader.  This method is the preffered method
   as it does not require the rebuilding of the kernel.  In order to use lilo
   to configure Digi boards at boot time an appropriate append command should
   be added to /etc/lilo.conf below the appropriate label decleration.  
   See footer 4.  The append commands format is a string of comma separated
   identifiers or integers used to configure supported boards.  These six
   values in order are:

     Enable/Disable this card or Override,
     Type of card: PC/Xe (AccelePort) (0), PC/Xeve (1), PC/Xem or PC/Xr (2),
                   EISA/Xem (3), PC/Xe (64K) (4), PC/Xi (5).
     Enable/Disable alternate pin arrangement,
     Number of ports on this card,
     I/O Port where card is configured (in HEX if using string identifiers),
     Base of memory window (in HEX if using string identifiers) 

   A sample append command is given below which if used would configure and 
   enable a PC/Xe with 8 ports, at i/o address 200, memory address 0xd0000 
   with alt pin turned off.  The lilo.conf file should look like this:

     image = /vmlinuz
       root = /dev/hda2
       label = vmlinuz
       append="digiepca=E,PC/Xe,D,8,200,D0000"

   likewise the below will perform the same function:

     image = /vmlinuz
       root = /dev/hda2
       label = vmlinuz
       append="digiepca=1,0,0,8,512,851968"

   Note:

     PCI boards are auto-detected and configured (Hence their codes are
     not given here).  Do not attempt to configure PCI boards with the lilo 
     append command.

     If configuration data has been specified by using digiConfig (Described
     below), and you wish to override this configuration using lilo without
     specifying a specific card (Example if there are PCI cards in the system)
     the following override command will accomplish this:

     -> append="digiepca=2"
   
   If lilo is not enabled, the second method of configuring Digi hardware 
   will have to be used.  digiConfig is an application that can be used 
   to inform the system of any additions, deletions, or modifications
   involving Digi hardware.  To use this method the operator executes  
   digiConfig anytime an EISA or ISA card is added that he wishes to use. 
   This routine is also used to remove cards from the system, and to modify 
   parameters of those cards already present in the system.  Upon being 
   executed digiConfig modifies files accessed by the Digi driver.  To make 
   these changes permanent; the operating system must be recompiled.  After 
   the operating system has been recompiled and booted, the changes made with
   digiConfig will be introduced to the user.  This program MUST be executed
   every time Digi EISA/ISA hardware configuration changes.  Note, it is not
   necessary to execute digiConfig in order to configure the Digi PCI cards.
   These cards are self-identifying and will be recognized by the driver.  
   They cannot be displayed using digiConfig nor will digiConfig build the 
   device nodes their device nodes. See footer 1.

   To execute digiConfig; simply type: digiConfig

   The application will query you for the type, memory address, port 
   address, number of ports, alt pin disposition and status of each board
   that exist on the system.  Note, currently this driver only supports 
   PC/Xe, PC/Xeve, PC/Xi, PC/Xr, and PC/Xem as well as their EISA and PCI 
   implementations if applicable.  All supported cards (Other than PCI) that
   are present should be registered via digiConfig.  See footer 2.

   After all cards have been configured select exit.  The system will then
   inform you if any changes have been made, and ask you if it is okay to
   make these changes permanent.  If the data entered is correct, select okay.
   Selecting cancel will prevent the changes from becoming active.  digiConfig
   can then be re-executed to configure the system again.

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2.  Initializing Digi hardware with digiDload
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   digiDload is the application executed after the Digi driver has been
   loaded.  It is responsible for initializing the hardware and leaving
   it in a state such that the Digi board may be operated by the user.
   The application may be placed anywhere on the path, but its related
   support files must be located in /etc/digi.  The related files are:

         sxfep.bin
         sxbios.bin
         xxfep.bin
         xxbios.bin

   The format for this command is "digiDload [v]".  If given the "v"
   option turns on verbosity.  If not given the application runs in quite
   mode.  To execute the program simply type:

        digiDload 

   Upon completion digiDload will generate the below message:

        "digiDload complete: Card initialized"

   At this point the card is configured and ready for normal usage.  See
   technotes.doc for information on how how ports are determined and 
   assigned.

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3.  Build PCI device nodes with buildPCI 
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   buildPCI is an application useful for building the necessary device nodes
   for Digi PCI cards.  It is reccomended that this tool be used because the
   current digiConfig application does not provide this function for PCI cards
   (Though it does build device nodes for non-PCI cards).  To use this program
   execute the following:first install the driver, and execute digiDload (See above).  After digiDload
   has sucessfully loaded, execute the following:

        buildPCI <arg1> <arg2>

   Where arg1 is the number of ports connected to Digi cards that are not PCI 
   (As shown by the digiConfig utility), and arg2 is the number of ports 
   connected to Digi cards that are PCI.

   Note, buildPCI only has to be ran once to build the necessary device 
   nodes.  Though this program may be executed at anytime, we reccomend 
   delaying execution until the first time you install the package and after 
   digiDload has been executed.

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4.  Setting Terminal Options with ditty
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ditty is a utility program that sets and displays the terminal options 
for Digi intelligent serial products.  See man ditty for detailed information.


Footnotes:

1.  The 1.2.x kernel does not provide a method of mapping the high 
    addresses (Normally higher than RAM) associated with PCI.  For this
    reason, this driver disables PCI support while running under the 1.2.x
    kernels.

2.  PCI cards should not and cannot be registered with digiConfig.  After
    the driver has been loaded buildPCI may be executed to construct the 
    necessary device nodes.  This step is not necessary for system not 
    having Digi PCI cards.

3.  This is because we forsee a time when buildPCI may auto-detect the
    available Digi PCI cards and this would only work if the program is 
    executed after digiDload.

4.  A complete example is given in install.doc.

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All changes should be recorded here.  All changes should be explained in 
verbose detail.  
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Programmer            : Ronnie Sanford
Date                  : June 1, 1996
Description (Verbose) : Initial release of driver package.
Files affected        : all
Release version       : 1.0.0f  (BETA)
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Programmer            : Ronnie Sanford
Date                  : August 7, 1996
Description (Verbose) : Made several modifications to provide PCI and EISA
                        support:

                        1.  We now allocate the termios structures based on
                            the maximum number of channels that COULD be 
                            available to the system.  We no longer use the
                            number of channels declared in epcaconfig.h 
                            (NBDEVS) as the total channel number.  This is 
                            because this value does not represent channels
                            available to potential PCI cards.  This new 
                            larger value is also passed back to the os in
                            the num field of tty_driver. 

                        2.  Added code to copy the previous board structure
                            (Now called static_boards) into a new local 
                            copy of the boards structure.  This has been 
                            done so that PCI cards may be added to this 
                            board array and later referenced (And even 
                            queried.). 

                        3.  Added code to pc_init that checks for supported
                            PCI cards.  If found this code initializes a new
                            entry into the drivers local board structure 
                            with the PCI cards address, and type, etc..  It 
                            also bumps the card count (num_cards).

                        4.  Modified code in post_fep_init so that when this
                            routine is executed the number of ports supported
                            by a particular PCI card will be determined and
                            loaded into the board structure.  It would be 
                            much better if this code was placed in pc_init
                            (Because we could then report to the os the true
                            number of ports available; not just the max), but
                            since the card has to be booted to determine the
                            number of ports it supports, we are forced to do it
                            after DIGI_INIT has called post_fep_init.  In the 
                            future we may attempt to read the num ports 
                            attached directly (address 0x1ac).

                        5.  Added board types to epca.h in support of various
                            PCI boards (Some of which do not exist yet).  
                            Added procedures for these boards throughout the
                            code.  Note, windowing is not necessary for PCI
                            boards.  

                        6.  Added code supporting the EISA/XEM.  This included
                            modifying epca.h with the new board type and 
                            adding this type into the driver.  The EISA/XEM
                            is basically identical to the PC/XEM, other than
                            it's base address does not have to be (And cannot
                            be configured directly).

                        7.  Modified digiConfig to prompt for EISA/XEM cards.
                             
Files affected        : epca.c, epca.h, digi1.h, digiConfig
Release version       : 1.0.0g  (BETA)
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Programmer            : Ronnie Sanford
Date                  : August 21, 1996
Description (Verbose) : Made the following modifications:

                        1.  A problem affecting hard flow control was found 
                            in the termios2digi_h routine.  Specifically,
                            when the user activated hard flow control using
                            the CRTSCTS specification, the values used to 
                            program hard flow control on the board were 
                            incorrect.  The solution was to change a line
                            that read "res |= ((ch->m_dtr) | (ch->m_rts));"
                            to "res |= ((ch->m_cts) | (ch->m_rts));"  This 
                            line only applies if cflag & CRTSCTS.  Special
                            thanks to Matt Robinson (matt@mania.com.au) who
                            found and fixed this problem.

                        2.  In previous betas the cud device was set to  CLOCAL
                            on driver boot up.  Likewise the ttyD device was
                            set to ~CLOCAL.  This has been fixed in this driver.
                            Now ttyD is CLOCAL and cud is ~CLOCAL.  The fix
                            for this can be found in pc_init.

                        3.  In ditty.c many changes were made to eliminate bugs
                            and warning messages.  Two ioctl calls were eliminated
                            as well a problem involving using the returned baud
                            index to determine the drivers baud rate.  Newer 
                            Linux kernels support higher baud rates by using
                            0x1000 bit.  When the returned value (ored with
                            0x1000) was used to reference our fbaud table a 
                            serious memory problem occured.  This has been fixed.

                        4.  Added a request_region call to post_fep_init.  This
                            should cause the i/o ports being used to be 
                            registered with proc.
 
                        5.  Modified digiConfig to set all cud and ttyD devices
                            to read/write all permission.

                        6.  Developed a new apps called buildPCI that provides 
                            an easy way to build device nodes for PCI cards.
         
                        7.  Modified user.doc and technotes.doc document the
                            use of buildPCI.

Files affected        : epca.c, ditty.c, digiConfig, user.doc, technotes.doc 
Release version       : 1.0.0 (Official release)
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Programmer            : Ronnie Sanford
Date                  : August 21, 1996
Description (Verbose) : Made the following modifications:

                        1.  Removed code from pc_close which closes the 
                            drivers line discipline and restores its original
                            line discipline.  This is currently unecessary,
                            though future fast cook enhancements may require
                            this.

                        2.  Removed code in block_til_ready that set the 
                            asyncflags to either ASYNC_CALLOUT_ACTIVE, or
                            ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE.  This code was redundant
                            as it already existed in block_til_ready.

                        3.  Added code in block_til_ready to cause a return
                            prior to schedule being called if the device 
                            was a CALLOUT device.  CALLOUT devices never
                            block on CD. (This was a serious bug that 
                            prevented the CALLOUT devices (ttyD) from 
                            functioning properly in some instances.

                            Make a change in the MODEMCHG_IND case of doevent
                            such that it does not require ASYNC_CALLOUT_ACTIVE
                            or ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE to be set in order to 
                            unblock an open (Using wait_interruptible).

                            Thanks to Mike McLagan (mike.mclagan@linux.org)
                            for diagnosing and fixing this problem. 

                        4.  Made changes to the disposition of CLOCAL on 
                            both SERIAL NORMAL and CALLOUT devices.  Both
                            device types now have CLOCAL active at default.
                            This may be changed with a stty command.

                        5.  Made changes to digiConfig such that it checks
                            major.h (If valid) for the correct major
                            numbers to use.

Files affected        : epca.c, digiConfig 
Release version       : 1.0.1a 


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Programmer            : Ronnie Sanford
Date                  : September 17, 1996
Description (Verbose) : Made the following modifications:
	
                        1. Modified pc_open such that it no longer checks 
                           the cflag value returned by termios2digi_c for
                           CLOCAL.  Digi hardware does not use this value
                           and thus termios2digi_c rightly screens this 
                           value out.  This driver checks for CLOCAL using
                           the drivers cflag value as known by the Linux OS.
                           (The value passed into termios2digi_c)

                        2. Modified termios2digi_c to screen out the 
                           CBAUDEX in CBAUD.  This error caused parity to
                           automaticaly be enabled on at higher baud rates.
		

                        3. Added the "disable_bh()" call to the shutdown
                           subroutine.  Hopefully this will allow the driver
                           to correctly clean up after itself when used as a
                           module. 

                        4. Added support for the PC/XI and 64K PC/XE cards.
                           This involved primarily modifying digiDload to
                           initialize and boot the new cards; however 
                           driver modifications were also required to 
                           provide the proper windowing for the newly 
                           supported cards. (Code was also added to 
                           determine the memory segment of the XI card as
                           that card may have more than 64K.  Currently
                           digiDload assumes a 64K XI card.)

                        5. Added subroutine called epca_setup that can be 
                           called during LILO boot up.  This provides the 
                           user an easy way to change cards; without 
                           running digiConfig and without recompiling the
                           kernel.  Added code in pc_init and pc_open to
                           support the epca_setup routine.  pc_init checks
                           the liloconfig flag (Which is set by epca_setup)
                           to determine if the driver is using the LILO 
                           arguments.  If not pc_init loads the board data 
                           found in epcaconfig.h; if so it DOESN'T load
                           epcaconfig data depending on epca_setup to handle 
                           board configuration.  pc_open has been modified 
                           such that it checks to insure that no errors
                           occured during the LILO boot process.  If a 
                           user attempts to boot the driver (via. LILO)
                           with incorrect data, the open will fail. 

                        6. Modified the windowing routines pcxe_rxwinon
                           and pcxe_txwinon routines.  A bug existed such
                           that those routines checked to see if the rxwin 
                           and txwin flags were reset.  If so they assumed 
                           the board was an XI or 64K XE.  Furthermore since
                           these flags were never initialized in our driver
                           sometimes they were 0 and therefore caused a 
                           memory fault (Or at least a window overrun).  This
                           code has been removed since the pcxe shares 
                           nothing in common with the 64K XI and XE. 

                        7. Added code in pc_init to set the memory_seg for
                           the various boards.  This code was necessary to
                           correct a bug in the PCXE, PCXEVE code where 
                           receive and transmit pointers were being calculated
                           from an uninitialized variable (memory_seg). 

                        8. Modified digiConfig to allow 64K PC/XI and 64K
                           PC/XE cards to be configured.
                           
                        9. Made changes to support the new 2.1.x development 
                           kernel.  In particular this required changing all
                           references to vremap to ioremap. 

                       10. Modified digiConfig such that it now generates 
                           node names corresponding to their internal 
                           as opposed to the label on the port itself.  Nodes
                           (ttyD?? and cud??) now start at 0.  Example:
                           ttyD0 and cud0 represent port 1 on any supported
                           Digi product.  A similar change has been made
                           in buildPCI.c. 

                       12. At the early portion of post_fep_init if a PCI
                           card is detected a warning message could be given
                           incorrectly if 64 ports were attached to a PCI 
                           card.  The below line :

                           epcaassert(bd->numports > 64,"PCI returned a invalid number of ports"); 
    
                           was changed to :

                           epcaassert(bd->numports <= 64,"PCI returned a invalid number of ports"); 

                           Remember that epcaassert checks for NOT true.
                           Special thanks to Daniel Taylor for fixing this.

                       13. Modified the epcaparam routine.  In version 100
                           and 101a there was a line that looked like the 
                           below:

                             if (ch->omodem != mval)
                           
                           The problem with this line was that the first time
                           through omodem was not initialized.  Secondly, since
                           many TIOC commands did not alter mval (They use
                           a different variable) changes made by these commands
                           could be lost.  This line was changed to:

                             mval ^= ch->modemfake & (mval ^ ch->modem);

                             if (ch->omodem ^ mval)

                       14. Modified digiConfig in such a way that it checks 
                           the version number of the kernel and if it finds
                           a 2.x.x kernel or higher it reads the necessary 
                           major numbers for cud and ttyD devices from major.h.
                           This was also done in prior versions but these
                           versions required a #define which identified the 
                           kernel as a version which did not have major numbers
                           assigned to Digi systems.  This #define is no 
                           longer required allowing the same source tree for
                           multiple kernel releases.

                       15. Used macros to replace kernel specific calls such
                           as put_fs_long, get_fs_long, put_user, and get_user
                           the kernel version is now detected and the macro
                           is defined as to correspond with the kernel it
                           is being compiled into.  Again this was done to
                           allow one source tree for multiple kernel releases. 

                       16. Added support for the new 2.1.x development kernels
                           to digiInstall.

Files affected        : epca.c, digiConfig 
Release version       : 1.1.0
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Programmer            : Daniel Taylor
Date                  : April 25, 1997
Description (Verbose) : Updated driver:
                        1.  Fixed DCD bug. (&tq_scheduler)
                        2.  Removed BH handler code, as it was only handling
                            hangups, and not being called for that.
                        3.  Namespace cleanup (DIGI_TIMER2 => DIGI_TIMER)
                        4.  Updated to 2.1.36, removed #ifdefs for earlier
                            kernel revisions.
Files affected        : epca.c
Release version       : 1.1.1  (BETA)
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