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37.Dd December 25, 2006
38.Dt GIO 4 sgimips
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm gio
42.Nd SGI's Graphics I/O (GIO) bus (an early PCI-like bus)
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "gio0 at imc0"
45.Cd "gio0 at pic0"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49bus is a bus for connecting high-speed peripherals to the main memory and
50CPU.
51The devices themselves are typically (but not necessarily) connected to the
52.Xr hpc 4
53peripheral controller, and memory and CPU are accessed through the
54.Xr imc 4
55(Indy Memory Controller) or
56.Xr pic 4
57(Processor Interface Controller).
58The
59.Nm
60bus is found on the Personal Iris 4D/3x, Indigo, Indy, Challenge S,
61Challenge M, and Indigo2 machines and exists in three incarnations:
62GIO32, GIO32-bis, and GIO64.
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr giopci 4 ,
65.Xr grtwo 4 ,
66.Xr hpc 4 ,
67.Xr imc 4 ,
68.Xr light 4 ,
69.Xr newport 4 ,
70.Xr pic 4
71.Sh HISTORY
72The
73.Nm
74driver first appeared in
75.Nx 1.5 .
76.Sh CAVEATS
77Challenge S systems may use only one
78.Nm
79DMA-capable expansion card, despite having two slots.
80Cards based on the
81.Xr hpc 4
82controller, such as the GIO32 scsi and E++ Ethernet adapters, must be
83placed in slot 1 (closest to the side of the case).
84All other cards must be placed in slot 0 (adjacent to the memory banks).
85.Pp
86Indigo2 and Challenge M systems contain either three or four GIO64 connectors,
87depending on the model.
88However, in both cases only two electrically
89distinct slots are present.
90Therefore, distinct expansion cards may not
91share physical connectors associated with the same slot.
92Refer to the PCB
93stencils to determine the association between physical connectors and slots.
94.Sh BUGS
95Systems employing the
96.Xr imc 4
97may experience spurious SysAD bus parity errors when using expansion cards,
98which do not drive all data lines during a CPU PIO read.
99The only workaround is to disable SysAD parity checking when using such
100cards.
101