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31.Dd $Mdocdate: October 9 2007 $
32.Dt INTRO 4 landisk
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm intro
36.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The manual pages in section 4 describe the special files,
39related driver functions, and networking support
40available in the system.
41In this part of the manual, the
42.Sx SYNOPSIS
43section of
44each configurable device gives a sample specification
45for use in constructing a system description for the
46.Xr config 8
47program.
48The
49.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
50section lists messages which may appear on the console
51and/or in the system error log
52.Pa /var/log/messages
53due to errors in device operation;
54see
55.Xr syslogd 8
56for more information.
57.Pp
58This section contains both devices
59which may be configured into the system
60and network related information.
61The networking support is introduced in
62.Xr netintro 4 .
63.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT
64This section describes the hardware supported on the landisk platform.
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 compiled
79into 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
84time it is not accessible at any time afterwards.
85To enable a device which did not autoconfigure,
86the system will have to 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 LIST OF DEVICES
92The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
93the system.
94Pseudo-devices are not listed.
95.\" Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
96Not all supported devices are listed.
97.Pp
98.Bl -tag -width lotsofletters -compact -offset indent
99.It Xr cd 4
100ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM driver
101.It Xr obio 4
102landisk onboard I/O bus device
103.It Xr pciide 4
104PCI IDE controller driver
105.It Xr power 4
106power switch
107.\" cpu
108.\" rsclock
109.It Xr sd 4
110SCSI disk driver
111.\" shb
112.\" scif
113.It Xr shpcic 4
114landisk SuperH PCI-Host Bridge
115.It Xr wd 4
116WD100x compatible hard disk driver
117.It Xr wdc 4
118WD100x compatible hard disk controller driver
119.El
120.Pp
121A further list of available devices is contained within the pages
122describing the system buses and controllers.
123For example, a PCI device would be listed in the
124.Xr pci 4
125man page.
126The following buses and controllers list these devices:
127.Pp
128.Bl -tag -width "cardbus(4)XX" -offset 3n -compact
129.It Xr onewire 4
1301-Wire bus
131.It Xr pci 4
132introduction to PCI bus support
133.It Xr usb 4
134introduction to Universal Serial Bus support
135.El
136.Sh SEE ALSO
137.Xr autoconf 4 ,
138.Xr config 8
139.Sh HISTORY
140The
141landisk
142.Nm intro
143first appeared in
144.Ox 4.1 .
145