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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-10-06 22:28:19 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-10-06 22:28:19 +0000
commitfc9af8adc62a8d7b4f35df6919d611a8d133975b (patch)
tree3d5d48e273ac90bcf5a737bd989215e8c3ba7c74 /share/man
parent0eb5cd7833dcf841435dcf868dbafdc0d7ab67a8 (diff)
Missed that sun3 wants intro(4) as well.
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.sun3/Makefile4
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.sun3/intro.4110
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 .