1 2 Serial UART 16450/16550 MIDI driver 3 =================================== 4 5The adaptor module parameter allows you to select either: 6 7 0 - Roland Soundcanvas support (default) 8 1 - Midiator MS-124T support (1) 9 2 - Midiator MS-124W S/A mode (2) 10 3 - MS-124W M/B mode support (3) 11 4 - Generic device with multiple input support (4) 12 13For the Midiator MS-124W, you must set the physical M-S and A-B 14switches on the Midiator to match the driver mode you select. 15 16In Roland Soundcanvas mode, multiple ALSA raw MIDI substreams are supported 17(midiCnD0-midiCnD15). Whenever you write to a different substream, the driver 18sends the nonstandard MIDI command sequence F5 NN, where NN is the substream 19number plus 1. Roland modules use this command to switch between different 20"parts", so this feature lets you treat each part as a distinct raw MIDI 21substream. The driver provides no way to send F5 00 (no selection) or to not 22send the F5 NN command sequence at all; perhaps it ought to. 23 24Usage example for simple serial converter: 25 26 /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none 27 /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 speed=115200 28 29Usage example for Roland SoundCanvas with 4 MIDI ports: 30 31 /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none 32 /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 outs=4 33 34In MS-124T mode, one raw MIDI substream is supported (midiCnD0); the outs 35module parameter is automatically set to 1. The driver sends the same data to 36all four MIDI Out connectors. Set the A-B switch and the speed module 37parameter to match (A=19200, B=9600). 38 39Usage example for MS-124T, with A-B switch in A position: 40 41 /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none 42 /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 adaptor=1 \ 43 speed=19200 44 45In MS-124W S/A mode, one raw MIDI substream is supported (midiCnD0); 46the outs module parameter is automatically set to 1. The driver sends 47the same data to all four MIDI Out connectors at full MIDI speed. 48 49Usage example for S/A mode: 50 51 /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none 52 /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 adaptor=2 53 54In MS-124W M/B mode, the driver supports 16 ALSA raw MIDI substreams; 55the outs module parameter is automatically set to 16. The substream 56number gives a bitmask of which MIDI Out connectors the data should be 57sent to, with midiCnD1 sending to Out 1, midiCnD2 to Out 2, midiCnD4 to 58Out 3, and midiCnD8 to Out 4. Thus midiCnD15 sends the data to all 4 ports. 59As a special case, midiCnD0 also sends to all ports, since it is not useful 60to send the data to no ports. M/B mode has extra overhead to select the MIDI 61Out for each byte, so the aggregate data rate across all four MIDI Outs is 62at most one byte every 520 us, as compared with the full MIDI data rate of 63one byte every 320 us per port. 64 65Usage example for M/B mode: 66 67 /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none 68 /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 adaptor=3 69 70The MS-124W hardware's M/A mode is currently not supported. This mode allows 71the MIDI Outs to act independently at double the aggregate throughput of M/B, 72but does not allow sending the same byte simultaneously to multiple MIDI Outs. 73The M/A protocol requires the driver to twiddle the modem control lines under 74timing constraints, so it would be a bit more complicated to implement than 75the other modes. 76 77Midiator models other than MS-124W and MS-124T are currently not supported. 78Note that the suffix letter is significant; the MS-124 and MS-124B are not 79compatible, nor are the other known models MS-101, MS-101B, MS-103, and MS-114. 80I do have documentation (tim.mann@compaq.com) that partially covers these models, 81but no units to experiment with. The MS-124W support is tested with a real unit. 82The MS-124T support is untested, but should work. 83 84The Generic driver supports multiple input and output substreams over a single 85serial port. Similar to Roland Soundcanvas mode, F5 NN is used to select the 86appropriate input or output stream (depending on the data direction). 87Additionally, the CTS signal is used to regulate the data flow. The number of 88inputs is specified by the ins parameter. 89