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26.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd March 29, 2006
29.Dt SCC 4
30.Os
31.\"
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm scc
34.Nd driver for Serial Communications Controllers (SCC) devices
35.\"
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "device scc"
38.Cd "device uart"
39.\"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43device driver provides support for various classes of SCCs.
44It is an umbrella driver that delegates control of each independent
45communication channel to subordinate drivers.
46These subordinate drivers, like
47.Xr uart 4 ,
48take care of the details of the communication itself.
49.\"
50.Sh HARDWARE
51The
52.Nm
53driver supports the following classes of SCCs:
54.Pp
55.Bl -bullet -compact
56.It
57SAB82532: Siemens SAB 82532 based serial communications controllers.
58.It
59Z8530: Zilog 8530 based serial communications controllers.
60.El
61.\"
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr puc 4 ,
64.Xr uart 4
65.\"
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69device driver first appeared in
70.Fx 7.0 .
71.Sh AUTHORS
72The
73.Nm
74driver and this manual page were written by
75.An Marcel Moolenaar Aq marcel@xcllnt.net .