From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Multi-user-board under Linux Date: 28 Feb 1993 22:59:23 -0500
From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 00:03:24 GMT
: Hello all,
: What kind of multiuser-board is linux supprting,if any?
: I need one for a RS422 serial line.
: Thanks
: Ernst
AST 4 port works
Boca 4 port (emulates AST)
Accent Async 4 port works
Actually, the Boca boards aren't emulating the AST Fourport; the boards
are similar, but not identical. Boca was kind enough to lend me one of
their boards, and I explicitly made sure the Boca board would work with
the serial driver. In fact, Linux will support the Boca 4 port, the 8
port, and the 16 port --- any of Boca's dumb serial interfaces.
I currently have no plans to support Boca's 16 and 64 port intelligent
serial interfaces; although somebody else might decide to work on it, if
he/she felt really inspired. (It would be a lot of work, and you'd have
to do it as an entirely separate device driver.)
- Ted