Re: InterruptStatus on a multiport serial card

[Roy Tannenbaum <roy@jungo.com>]

Dear Johan,

You may want to check WinDriver by Jungo
[www.jungo.com].
It includes a sample application
(\WinDriver\plx\9050\serial\p9050_serial.c)
that access the PCI device configuration space, diagnose the
required
resources and updates the NT registry, enabling the standard NT
serial driver to automatically recognize your card as standard
serial device. It might help even though it is designed for PLX 
9050
devices. Good luck.

Best Regards,
Roy Tannenbaum.
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At 13:08 27/11/2001, JohanHZ@Sycron-IT.com wrote:
> Hi PCI-SIG
>
> I recently develloped a PCI card with 4 serial ports, based on the
> standard
> serial chip 16C550.
> In a previous question I asked the PCI-SIG if anyone was able to write
> a
> device driver for our card (and had many replies!)
>
> However, I have discovered that Windows NT and Windows 2000 (and also
> Linux)
> support standard multiport serial devices (serial.sys and
> serenum.sys).
>
> I digged and digged, but found not much information on that.
> I believe that the PCI card has to act as follows :
>
> - One must specify an I/O range that maps the serial ports as
> follows
> (assuming the base I/O adress is eg FCC0) : serial1=FCC0 to
> FCC7;serial2=FCC8 to FC0f;serial3=FC10 to FC17;serial4=FC18 to FC1f
> Is this information correct? Does it matter in what BAR this is
> mapped?
>
> - The 4 serial ports can generate interrupts. I read that
> "interrupt
> handling" is done by an Interrupt Status port. I however do not
> find
> information about how this interrupt Status port acts on a
> particular
> interrupt : Is it 1 byte, default 0xff, if an interrupt occurs from
> a
> particular port, then it is a zero-indexed port number? Is it several
> bytes?
> I also read that there can be two possibilities : Simple Interrupt
> method
> and Complex interrupt method : what is the difference, are they
> standard
> supported by NT/2000 ?
>
> If I know all the above, I can then easily adapt the firmware on my
> PCI
> card, so that NT/2000 recognises my card without writing an own
> device
> driver
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> JOHan Hallez
> System Engineer
> Sycron NV.
>
> "There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one
> works."
> -
> Alan J. Perlis.