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32.Dd August 3, 2001
33.Dt INTRO 4 MacPPC
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm intro
37.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The manual pages in section 4 describe the special files,
40related driver functions, and networking support
41available in the system.
42In this part of the manual, the
43.Tn SYNOPSIS
44section of
45each 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;
55see
56.Xr syslogd 8
57for more information.
58.Pp
59This section contains both devices
60which may be configured into the system
61and network related information.
62The networking support is introduced in
63.Xr netintro 4 .
64.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT
65This section describes the hardware supported on the MacPPC
66platform.
67Software support for these devices comes in two forms.
68A hardware device may be supported with a character or block
69.Em device driver ,
70or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
71.Em network interface driver .
72Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file
73system of a special type; see
74.Xr mknod 8 .
75Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess
76communication facilities provided by the system; see
77.Xr socket 2 .
78.Pp
79A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time
80and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled
81into the system.
82When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities
83in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software
84support for it.
85If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration
86time it is not accessible at any time afterwards.
87To enable a device which did not autoconfigure,
88the system will have to be rebooted.
89.Pp
90The configuration system is described in
91.Xr autoconf 4 .
92A list of the supported devices is given below.
93.Sh LIST OF DEVICES
94The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
95the system.
96Pseudo-devices are not listed.
97Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
98Not all supported devices are listed.
99.Pp
100.Bl -tag -width usscanner -compact -offset indent
101.It abtn
102ADB button.
103.It aed
104ADB Event Device.
105.It akbd
106ADB keyboard.
107.It ams
108ADB mouse.
109.It an
110Cisco/Aironet.
111.It aue
112USB ethernet.
113.It awacs
114Apple audio device.
115.It bm
116BMAC ethernet.
117.It gm
118GMAC ethernet.
119.It gpio
120PMU interrupt router.
121.It iop
122I2O processor, arrays, SCSI pass-through.
123.It kue
124Kawasaki KL5KUSB101B.
125.It ohci
126Open Host Controller, Opti RM861HA.
127.It ugen
128USB Generic Driver.
129.It uhid
130USB Generic HID devices.
131.It ukbd
132USB HID Keyboard devices.
133.It ulpt
134USB Printer.
135.It umass
136USB Mass Storage Device.
137.It ums
138USB Mice.
139.It uscanner
140USB Scanner.
141.It usscanner
142USB SCSI Scanner.
143.It vgafb
144PCI VGA graphics.
145.It wi
146WaveLAN.
147.El
148.Sh SEE ALSO
149.Xr autoconf 4 ,
150.Xr config 8
151.Sh HISTORY
152The
153MacPPC
154.Nm
155first appeared in
156.Ox 3.0 .
157