SER(4) (Amiga)

SER(4) | Kernel Interfaces Manual (Amiga) | SER(4)

# NAME

ser — Amiga 8520 serial communications interface

# SYNOPSIS

ser0 at mainbus0

# DESCRIPTION

The Amiga 8520 controls, among other things, a single port EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.28) communications interface with a single character buffer. Such an interface is built-in to all Amiga machines.

Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates; 50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600 or 76800.

# FILES

/dev/tty00

# DIAGNOSTICS

ser0: silo overflow.
  The single-character input “silo” has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
ser0: %d ring buffer overflows.
  The software based input ring buffer has overflowed %d times and incoming data has been lost.

# SEE ALSO

tty(4)

# HISTORY

The Amiga ser device first appeared in NetBSD 1.0

# BUGS

Data loss is possible on busy systems with baud rates greater than 300.

August 30, 1994 | NetBSD 7.0