> >The serial card is more interesting. It's a "SUNW,spif", according to
   > >OpenBoot, and is rumoured to have eight serial interfaces on it. Looking
   > >at the card, there's a Cirrus Logic chip and lots of what look like line
   > >driver chips leading to a Socket With Billions of Pins.
   > 
   Hope you have the break out box and cable for it... Several cards I've seen
   for sale on the net are missing them *sigh*
   
   > it sounds a little like a serial card i've got.  mine identifies
   > itself as a csfour, is made by aurora technologies, and has a cd2401
   > for the four serial ports.  who makes yours?
   > 
   Might be close, might not.  Spif is a Sun (OEM'd?) card based on an old
   CD180 chip (not cd1800), and has a weird way of handling DTR.  Either way,
   a driver already exists for this in OpenBSD (sys/arch/sparc/dev/spif*).
   Would be easy enough to port it I suspect.  The only thing that doesn't
   work is the parallel port, and that's partly out of laziness on my part.


there are N versions of this hardware.  i've got one that has 2 cd180's on
it (16 serial ports), and no parallel port.  i've been working on a driver
for some time but i never finished all the tty-handling parts.


.mrg.