current nightly

Sortix nightly manual

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

NAME

com — uart 8250 serial port terminal driver

/dev/comX

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.