1.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.7 2013/06/29 16:57:33 jmc Exp $ 2.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 14.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 15.\" without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" from: @(#)intro.4 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 30.\" 31.Dd $Mdocdate: June 29 2013 $ 32.Dt INTRO 4 luna88k 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 SYNOPSIS section of 42each configurable device gives a sample specification 43for use in constructing a system description for the 44.Xr config 8 45program. 46The DIAGNOSTICS section lists messages which may appear on the console 47and/or in the system error log 48.Pa /var/log/messages 49due to errors in device operation; 50see 51.Xr syslogd 8 52for more information. 53.Pp 54This section contains both devices 55which may be configured into the system 56and network related information. 57The networking support is introduced in 58.Xr netintro 4 . 59.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT 60This section describes the hardware supported on the 61luna88k platform. 62Software support for these devices comes in two forms. 63A hardware device may be supported with a character or block 64.Em device driver , 65or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 66.Em network interface driver . 67Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 68system of a special type; see 69.Xr mknod 8 . 70Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 71communication facilities provided by the system; see 72.Xr socket 2 . 73.Pp 74A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 75and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 76into the system. 77When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities 78in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software 79support for it. 80If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration 81time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. 82To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, 83the system will have to be rebooted. 84.Pp 85The autoconfiguration system is described in 86.Xr autoconf 4 . 87A list of the supported devices is given below. 88.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 89The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 90the system. 91Pseudo-devices are not listed. 92Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 93Not all supported devices are listed. 94.Pp 95.Bl -tag -compact -width "pcctwo(4)" -offset 3n 96.\".It Xr clock 4 97.\"battery-backed clock 98.\".It Xr fb 4 99.\"on-board frame buffer 100.It Xr lcd 4 101front panel LCD display 102.It Xr le 4 103AMD LANCE Ethernet device 104.\".It Xr sio 4 105.\"on-board serial ports 106.It Xr spc 4 107Fujitsu MB87030/MB89352 SCSI device 108.\".It Xr ws 4 109.\"on-board keyboard and mouse ports 110.El 111.Sh SEE ALSO 112.Xr autoconf 4 , 113.Xr config 8 114