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Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 19.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 20.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 23.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 24.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 25.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 27.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 28.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 29.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 30.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 31.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 32.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.Dd April 29, 2003 35.Dt INTRO 4 arc 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm intro 39.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41This section describes the special files, related driver functions, 42and networking support available in the system. 43In this part of the manual, the 44.Tn SYNOPSIS 45section of each configurable device gives a sample specification 46for use in constructing a system description for the 47.Xr config 8 48program. 49The 50.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 51section lists messages which may appear on the console 52and/or in the system error log 53.Pa /var/log/messages 54due to errors in device operation; see 55.Xr syslogd 8 56for more information. 57.Pp 58This section contains both devices which may be configured into 59the system and network related information. 60The networking support is introduced in 61.Xr netintro 4 . 62.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT 63This section describes the hardware supported by 64.Nx Ns /arc . 65Software support for these devices comes in two forms. 66A hardware device may be supported with a character or block 67.Em device driver , 68or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 69.Em network interface driver . 70Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 71system of a special type; see 72.Xr mknod 8 . 73Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 74communication facilities provided by the system; see 75.Xr socket 2 . 76.Pp 77A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 78and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then 79compiled into the system. 80When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities 81in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software 82support for it. 83If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration time it is not 84accessible at any time afterwards. 85To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, the 86system must be rebooted. 87.Pp 88The autoconfiguration system is described in 89.Xr autoconf 4 . 90A list of the supported devices is given below. 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr autoconf 4 , 93.Xr config 8 94.Sh HARDWARE 95.Nx Ns /arc 96supports a variety of systems conforming to the ARC machine 97specification. 98The following systems are supported: 99.Pp 100.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -offset indent -compact 101.It Acer PICA 102.It DESKstation rPC44 103.It DESKstation Tyne 104.It MIPS Magnum 4000 105.It NEC Express 5800/230 PCI R4K 106.It NEC Express 5800/240 EISA R4K 107.It NEC Express RISCserver 108.It NEC ImageRISCstation 109.It NEC RISCserver 2200 110.It NEC RISCstation 2200 EISA 111.It NEC RISCstation 2200 PCI 112.It NEC RISCstation 2250 113.El 114.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 115The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of the 116system. 117Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 118Not all supported devices are listed. 119.Pp 120.Bl -tag -width jazzisabr -offset indent -compact 121.It arcsisabr 122DESKstation rPC44 ISA host bridge 123.It jazzio 124Jazz internal bus host bridge 125.It jazzisabr 126Jazz ISA/EISA bus bridge 127.It necpb 128NEC RISCstation PCI host bridge 129.It tyneisabr 130DESKstation Tyne ISA host bridge 131.El 132.Pp 133The following devices on the Jazz internal bus are supported. 134.Pp 135.Bl -tag -width mcclock -offset indent -compact 136.It asc 137NCR 53c9x-based SCSI interface 138.It com 139NS16550-based serial communications interface 140.It fdc 141Floppy disk controller 142.It lpt 143Parallel port 144.It mcclock 145DS1287 real-time clock 146.It oosiop 147Symbios/NCR 53c700-based SCSI interface 148.It osiop 149Symbios/NCR 53c710-based SCSI interface 150.It pckbc 151PC keyboard controller 152.It sn 153SONIC Ethernet 154.It timer 155Interval timer 156.It vga 157VGA graphics 158.El 159.Pp 160PCI devices are supported through the 161.Xr pci 4 162bus and associated device drivers. 163.Pp 164ISA devices are supported through the 165.Xr isa 4 166bus and associated device drivers. 167.Pp 168.\"EISA devices are supported through the 169.\".Xr eisa 4 170.\"bus and associated device drivers. 171.\".Pp 172Console devices using ISA, Jazzio, or PCI video adaptors and standard AT 173or PS/2 keyboards are supported by the machine independent 174.Xr wscons 4 175console driver. 176.Sh UNSUPPORTED DEVICES 177The following devices are not supported, due to unavailability of 178either documentation or sample hardware: 179.Pp 180.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -offset indent -compact 181.It AD1848 audio on Jazzio 182.It EISA devices 183.It VXL framebuffer on MIPS Magnum and RISCstation 2200 EISA 184.El 185.Sh HISTORY 186This 187.Tn arc 188.Nm intro 189appeared in 190.Nx 2.0 . 191.Sh BUGS 192DESKstation rPC44 and Tyne support is currently broken. 193