altera_jtag_uart (4)

Leading comments

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 Copyright (c) 2012 Robert N. M. Watson
 All rights reserved.

 This software was developed by SRI International and the University of
 Cambridge Computer Laboratory under DARPA/AFRL contract (FA8750-10-C-0237)
 ("CTSRD"), as part of the DARPA CRASH research programme.

 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 are met:
 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice,...

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/altera_jtag_uart.4freebsd".)

NAME

altera_jtag_uart - driver for the Altera JTAG UART Core

SYNOPSIS

device altera_jtag_uart

In /boot/device.hints hint.altera_jtag_uart.0.at=nexus0 hint.altera_jtag_uart.0.maddr=0x7f000000 hint.altera_jtag_uart.0.msize=0x40 hint.altera_jtag_uart.0.irq=0 hint.altera_jtag_uart.1.at=nexus0 hint.altera_jtag_uart.1.maddr=0x7f001000 hint.altera_jtag_uart.1.msize=0x40

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig device driver provides support for the Altera JTAG UART core, which allows multiple UART-like streams to be carried over JTAG. ifconfig allows JTAG UART streams to be attached to both the low-level console interface, used for direct kernel input and output, and the tty(4) layer, to be used with ttys(5) and login(1). Sequential Altera JTAG UART devices will appear as ttyu0 ttyu1 etc.

HARDWARE

Altera JTAG UART devices can be connected to using Altera's nios2-terminal program, with the instance selected using the --instance argument on the management host. ifconfig supports JTAG UART cores with or without interrupt lines connected; if the irq portion of the device.hints entry is omitted, the driver will poll rather than configure interrupts.

SEE ALSO

login(1), tty(4), ttys(5)

Altera Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide June 2011

HISTORY

The ifconfig device driver first appeared in Fx 10.0 .

AUTHORS

The ifconfig device driver and this manual page were developed by SRI International and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under DARPA/AFRL contract (FA8750-10-C-0237) (Do CTSRD Dc , ) as part of the DARPA CRASH research programme. This device driver was written by An Robert N. M. Watson .

BUGS

ifconfig must dynamically poll to detect when JTAG is present, in order to disable flow control in the event that there is no receiving endpoint. Otherwise, the boot may hang waiting for the JTAG client to be attached, and user processes attached to JTAG UART devices might block indefinitely. However, there is no way to flush the output buffer once JTAG is detected to have disappeared; this means that a small amount of stale output data will remain in the output buffer, being displayed by nios2-terminal when it is connected. Loss of JTAG will not generate a hang-up event, as that is rarely the desired behaviour.

nios2-terminal does not place the client-side TTY in raw mode, and so by default will not pass all control characters through to the UART.