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NOTE: This driver is obsolete. Digi provides a 2.6 driver (dgdm) at
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http://www.digi.com for PCI cards. They no longer maintain this driver,
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and have no 2.6 driver for ISA cards.
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This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be acquired from
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http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels.
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The Digi Intl. epca driver.
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The Digi Intl. epca driver for Linux supports the following boards:
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Digi PC/Xem, PC/Xr, PC/Xe, PC/Xi, PC/Xeve
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Digi EISA/Xem, PCI/Xem, PCI/Xr
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Limitations:
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Currently the driver only autoprobes for supported PCI boards.
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The Linux MAKEDEV command does not support generating the Digiboard
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Devices. Users executing digiConfig to setup EISA and PC series cards
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will have their device nodes automatically constructed (cud?? for ~CLOCAL,
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and ttyD?? for CLOCAL). Users wishing to boot their board from the LILO
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prompt, or those users booting PCI cards may use buildDIGI to construct
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the necessary nodes.
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Notes:
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This driver may be configured via LILO. For users who have already configured
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their driver using digiConfig, configuring from LILO will override previous
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settings. Multiple boards may be configured by issuing multiple LILO command
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lines. For examples see the bottom of this document.
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Device names start at 0 and continue up. Beware of this as previous Digi
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drivers started device names with 1.
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PCI boards are auto-detected and configured by the driver. PCI boards will
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be allocated device numbers (internally) beginning with the lowest PCI slot
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first. In other words a PCI card in slot 3 will always have higher device
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nodes than a PCI card in slot 1.
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LILO config examples:
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Using LILO's APPEND command, a string of comma separated identifiers or
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integers can be used to configure supported boards. The six values in order
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are:
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Enable/Disable this card or Override,
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Type of card: PC/Xe (AccelePort) (0), PC/Xeve (1), PC/Xem or PC/Xr (2),
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EISA/Xem (3), PC/64Xe (4), PC/Xi (5),
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Enable/Disable alternate pin arrangement,
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Number of ports on this card,
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I/O Port where card is configured (in HEX if using string identifiers),
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Base of memory window (in HEX if using string identifiers),
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NOTE : PCI boards are auto-detected and configured. Do not attempt to
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configure PCI boards with the LILO append command. If you wish to override
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previous configuration data (As set by digiConfig), but you do not wish to
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configure any specific card (Example if there are PCI cards in the system)
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the following override command will accomplish this:
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-> append="digi=2"
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Samples:
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append="digiepca=E,PC/Xe,D,16,200,D0000"
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or
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append="digi=1,0,0,16,512,851968"
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Supporting Tools:
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Supporting tools include digiDload, digiConfig, buildPCI, and ditty. See
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drivers/char/README.epca for more details. Note,
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this driver REQUIRES that digiDload be executed prior to it being used.
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Failure to do this will result in an ENODEV error.
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Documentation:
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Complete documentation for this product may be found in the tool package.
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Sources of information and support:
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-----------------------------------
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Digi Intl. support site for this product:
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-> http://www.digi.com
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Acknowledgments:
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Much of this work (And even text) was derived from a similar document
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supporting the original public domain DigiBoard driver Copyright (C)
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1994,1995 Troy De Jongh. Many thanks to Christoph Lameter
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(christoph@lameter.com) and Mike McLagan (mike.mclagan@linux.org) who authored
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and contributed to the original document.
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Changelog:
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10-29-04: Update status of driver, remove dead links in document
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James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com>
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2000 (?) Original Document
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