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27.Dd February 7, 2002
28.Dt PUC 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm puc
32.Nd PCI
33.Dq Universal
34Communications driver
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "device pci"
37.Cd "device puc"
38.Cd "device sio"
39.Cd "options PUC_FASTINTR"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41This driver acts as a shim to connect PCI serial ports to the
42.Xr sio 4
43driver.
44.Pp
45The list of supported devices is in
46.Pa sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c .
47Support for new cards should be added there.
48.Pp
49If the
50.Dv PUC_FASTINTR
51option is used, the driver will try to use fast interrupts.
52This should lower the interrupt latency and should be used if the
53.Xr sio 4
54driver reports
55.Sy "silo overflow"
56errors.
57It cannot be used if the interrupt is shared.
58.Sh SEE ALSO
59.Xr sio 4
60.Sh HISTORY
61This driver took the idea from the
62.Nx
63.Xr puc 4
64driver and still uses the same structure to describe cards, to ease exchanging
65card info.
66.Sh BUGS
67Only serial ports are supported through the
68.Xr sio 4
69driver at the moment.
70Someone should write support for parallel ports using the
71.Xr lpt 4
72driver.
73