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author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-10-06 22:28:19 +0000 |
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committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-10-06 22:28:19 +0000 |
commit | fc9af8adc62a8d7b4f35df6919d611a8d133975b (patch) | |
tree | 3d5d48e273ac90bcf5a737bd989215e8c3ba7c74 /share/man | |
parent | 0eb5cd7833dcf841435dcf868dbafdc0d7ab67a8 (diff) |
Missed that sun3 wants intro(4) as well.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.sun3/intro.4 | 110 |
2 files changed, 112 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile b/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile index 446cff9b393..d2b0dc565f7 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # from: @(#)Makefile 8.2 (Berkeley) 2/16/94 -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.3 2001/06/20 16:27:30 mpech Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2001/10/06 22:28:18 miod Exp $ # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 1995/08/08 20:18:53 gwr Exp $ -MAN= bwtwo.4 cgtwo.4 cgfour.4 ie.4 le.4 leds.4 mem.4 +MAN= bwtwo.4 cgtwo.4 cgfour.4 ie.4 intro.4 le.4 leds.4 mem.4 MLINKS= mem.4 kmem.4 MANSUBDIR=sun3 diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/intro.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/intro.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6eef1389fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/intro.4 @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.1 2001/10/06 22:28:18 miod Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The OpenBSD Project +.\" ALl Rights Reserved. +.\" +.Dd October 6, 2001 +.Dt INTRO 4 sun3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm intro +.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The manual pages in section 4 describe the special files, +related driver functions, and networking support +available in the system. +In this part of the manual, the +.Tn SYNOPSIS +section of +each configurable device gives a sample specification +for use in constructing a system description for the +.Xr config 8 +program. +The +.Tn DIAGNOSTICS +section lists messages which may appear on the console +and/or in the system error log +.Pa /var/log/messages +due to errors in device operation; +see +.Xr syslogd 8 +for more information. +.Pp +This section contains both devices +which may be configured into the system +and network related information. +The networking support is introduced in +.Xr netintro 4 . +.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT +This section describes the hardware supported on the SPARC +platform. +Software support for these devices comes in two forms. +A hardware device may be supported with a character or block +.Em device driver , +or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a +.Em network interface driver . +Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file +system of a special type; see +.Xr mknod 8 . +Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess +communication facilities provided by the system; see +.Xr socket 2 . +.Pp +A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time +and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled +into the system. +When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities +in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software +support for it. +If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration +time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. +To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, +the system will have to be rebooted. +.Pp +The autoconfiguration system is described in +.Xr autoconf 4 . +A list of the supported devices is given below. +.Sh LIST OF DEVICES +The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of +the system. +Pseudo-devices are not listed. +Devices are indicated by their functional interface. +Not all supported devices are listed. +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width eeprom -compact -offset indent +.It bwtwo +Black and white frame buffer. +.It cgfour +8 bit on-board (or on the 3/60 P4 bus) color graphics frame buffer. +.It cgtwo +8 bit VMEbus color frame buffer. +.It eeprom +Sun non-volatile configuration RAM driver. +.It ie +Intel 82586 Ethernet controller. +.It kbd +Sun type 2, type 3, type 4, and type 5 keyboards (on zs). +.It le +AMD 7990 LANCE ethernet controller. +.It led +Diagnostic LED display. +.It ms +Sun mouse (on zs). +.It si +NCR5380 "SCSI-2" VMEbus or on-board SCSI controller. +.It xd +Xylogics 753/7053 VMEbus SMD disk controller. +.It xy +Xylogics 450/451 VMEbus SMD disk controller. +.It zs +Zilog 8530 serial controller. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr autoconf 4 , +.Xr config 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +sun3 +.Nm +first appeared in +.Ox 3.0 . |