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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

COM(4) Device Drivers Manual COM(4)

NAME

com — uart 8250 serial port terminal driver

SYNOPSIS

/dev/comX

DESCRIPTION

com is a terminal driver for the UART 8250 serial port and compatible devices.

The serial ports are detected using the BIOS Data Area.

com supports being the kernel(7) console as described in its --console option.

SEE ALSO

tty(4), kernel(7)

December 16, 2024 Sortix 1.1.0-dev
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