System Administration Commands ports(1M)
NAME
ports - creates /dev entries and inittab entries for serial
linesSYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/ports [-r rootdir]
DESCRIPTION
devfsadm(1M) is now the preferred command for /dev and /dev-
ices and should be used instead of ports.
The ports command creates symbolic links in the /dev/term
and /dev/cua directories to the serial-port character device
files in /devices and adds new entries in /etc/inittab fornon-system ports found. System-board ports are given single
lower-case letters for names (such as a and b) while other
ports are named numerically.
ports searches the kernel device tree to find the serial
devices attached to the system. It also checks /dev/term and /dev/cua to see what symbolic links to serial devicesalready exist. ports then performs the following:
1. Assigns new numbers (or letters for system-board
ports) to ports that are attached to the system but
do not have /dev/term and /dev/cua entries. Thenumbers or letters assigned are the lowest-unused
numbers or letters. 2. Removes dangling links: links from /dev/term and/dev/cua pointing to no-longer-existing ports.
3. Creates new /dev/term and /dev/cua links for new serial devices. 4. Invokes sacadm(1M) to make new port monitor entries for the new devices. This is not done automaticallyfor on-board ports; on workstations these ports are
often not used for dial-in sessions, so a port-
monitor for one of these ports must be created
explicitly.If the configuration has not changed, ports exits without
doing anything. Notice to Driver Writersports considers devices with a node type of DDI_NT_SERIAL,
DDI_NT_SERIAL_MB, DDI_NT_SERIAL_DO, or DDI_NT_SERIAL_MB_DO
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to be serial port devices. Devices with one of these node types must create minor device names that obey the followingconventions when calling ddi_create_minor_node(9F).
o The minor name for non-system port devices
(DDI_NT_SERIAL) consists of an ASCII numeric
string, where the first port on the device is named 0, the second named 1, the third named 2, up to thenumber of ports provided by the device.
o The minor name for non-system dialout devices
(DDI_NT_SERIAL_DO) is the ASCII numeric port name,
concatenated with ,cu. For example, the minor name for the first dialout port on the serial board is 0,cu.o The minor name for system-board port devices
(DDI_NT_SERIAL_MB) consists of a string containing
a single ASCII lowercase character, where the first port on the device is named a, the second is namedb, the third is named c, for all ports on the dev-
ice (or up through port z).o The minor name for system-board dialout devices
(DDI_NT_SERIAL_MB_DO) consists of the lowercase
character port name, concatenated with ,cu. For example, the minor name for the first dialout porton the on-board serial device is a,cu.
To prevent disks from attempting to automatically generate links for a device, drivers must specify a private node typeand refrain from using one of the above node types when cal-
ling ddi_create_minor_node(9F).
OPTIONS The following options are supported:-r rootdir Causes ports to presume that the /dev/term,
/dev/cua, and /devices directories are found under rootdir, not directly under /. If this argument is specified, sacadm(1M) is not invoked, since it would update terminal administration files under /etc without regard to the rootdir.EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating the Serial and Dialout Minor Device NodesSunOS 5.11 Last change: 8 Nov 2002 2
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The following example creates the serial and dialout minor device nodes from the xkserial driver's attach(9E) function: /* * Create the minor number by combining the instance number * with the port number.*/ #define XKNUMPORTS 8
#define XKMINORNUM(i, p) ((i) << 4 | (p))
#define XKMINORNUM_DO(i, p) ((i) << 4 | (p) | 0x80)
intxkserialattach(dev_info_t *dip, ddi_attach_cmd_t cmd)
{ int instance, portnum; char name[8]; /* other stuff in attach... */instance = ddi_get_instance(dip);
for (portnum = 0; portnum < XKNUMPORTS; portnum++) { /* * create the serial port device */sprintf(name, "%d", portnum);
ddi_create_minor_node(dip, name, S_IFCHR,
XKMINORNUM(instance, portnum), DDI_NT_SERIAL, 0);
/* * create the dialout device */sprintf(name,"%d,cu", portnum);
ddi_create_minor_node(dip, name, S_IFCHR,
XKMINORNUM_DO(instance, portnum), DDI_NT_SERIAL_DO, 0);
} } Example 2 Installing the xkserial Port Driver on a Sun Fire 4800 The following example installs the xkserial port driver on a Sun Fire 4800 (with the driver controlling the fictional XKSerial 8 port serial board), with these special files in /devices:# ls -l /devices/ssm@0,0/pci@18,700000/pci@1/xkserial@f,800000/
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 16 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:0
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 144 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:0,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 17 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:1
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 145 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:1,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 18 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:2
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crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 146 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:2,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 19 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:3
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 147 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:3,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 20 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:4
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 148 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:4,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 21 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:5
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 149 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:5,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 22 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:6
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 150 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:6,cu
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 23 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:7
crw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 151 Aug 29 00:02 xkserial@2000:7,cu
/dev/term contain symbolic links to the serial port device nodes in /devices# ls -l /dev/term
/dev/term/0 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:0
/dev/term/1 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:1
/dev/term/2 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:2
/dev/term/3 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:3
/dev/term/4 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:4
/dev/term/5 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:5
/dev/term/6 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:6
/dev/term/7 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:7
and /dev/cua contain symbolic links to the dialout port dev-
ice nodes in /devices# ls -l /dev/cua
/dev/cua/0 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:0,cu
/dev/cua/1 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:1,cu
/dev/cua/2 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:2,cu
/dev/cua/3 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:3,cu
/dev/cua/4 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:4,cu
/dev/cua/5 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:5,cu
/dev/cua/6 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:6,cu
/dev/cua/7 -> ../../devices/[....]/xkserial@2000:7,cu
FILES /dev/term/n Logical serial port devicesSunOS 5.11 Last change: 8 Nov 2002 4
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/dev/cua/n Logical dialout port devices /etc/inittab /etc/saf/*ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
add_drv(1M), devfsadm(1M), drvconfig(1M), pmadm(1M),
sacadm(1M), attributes(5), devfs(7FS), attach(9E),ddi_create_minor_node(9F)
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