bootparam.7: Remove crufty "Serial port drivers" options

[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-24 10:42:54 +02:00
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@ -799,87 +799,6 @@ As you can see, it gets pretty messy, and you are better off to compile
in your own personal values as recommended.
Using a boot argument of
\&'sound=0' will disable the sound driver entirely.
.SS Serial port drivers
.TP
.B "The RISCom/8 Multiport Serial Driver ('riscom8=')"
Syntax:
.in +4n
.nf
riscom=iobase1[,iobase2[,iobase3[,iobase4]]]
.fi
.in
.IP
More details can be found in the kernel source file
.IR Documentation/riscom8.txt .
.TP
.B "The DigiBoard Driver ('digi=')"
If this option is used, it should have precisely six parameters.
Syntax:
.in +4n
.nf
digi=status,type,altpin,numports,iobase,membase
.fi
.in
.IP
The parameters maybe given as integers, or as strings.
If strings are used, then iobase and membase should be given
in hexadecimal.
The integer arguments (fewer may be given) are in order:
status (Enable(1) or Disable(0) this card),
type (PC/Xi(0), PC/Xe(1), PC/Xeve(2), PC/Xem(3)),
altpin (Enable(1) or Disable(0) alternate pin arrangement),
numports (number of ports on this card),
iobase (I/O Port where card is configured (in HEX)),
membase (base of memory window (in HEX)).
Thus, the following two boot prompt arguments are equivalent:
.in +4n
.nf
digi=E,PC/Xi,D,16,200,D0000
digi=1,0,0,16,0x200,851968
.fi
.in
.IP
More details can be found in the kernel source file
.IR Documentation/digiboard.txt .
.TP
.B "The Baycom Serial/Parallel Radio Modem"
Syntax:
.in +4n
.nf
baycom=iobase,irq,modem
.fi
.in
.IP
There are precisely 3 parameters; for several cards, give
several 'baycom=' commands.
The modem parameter is a string
that can take one of the values ser12, ser12*, par96, par96*.
Here the * denotes that software DCD is to be used, and
ser12/par96 chooses between the supported modem types.
For more details, see the file
.I Documentation/networking/baycom.txt
(or
.I drivers/net/README.baycom
for older kernels) in the Linux kernel source.
.TP
.B "Soundcard radio modem driver"
Syntax:
.in +4n
.nf
soundmodem=iobase,irq,dma[,dma2[,serio[,pario]]],0,mode
.fi
.in
.IP
All parameters except the last are integers;
the dummy 0 is required because of a bug in the setup code.
The mode parameter is a string with syntax hw:modem,
where hw is one of sbc, wss, or wssfdx, and modem is one of
afsk1200 or fsk9600.
.SS The line printer driver
.TP
.B "'lp='"