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author | johns <johns@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-08 00:09:40 +0000 |
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committer | johns <johns@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-08 00:09:40 +0000 |
commit | f5dd8b4590f5db9b6a0d517bd137595c724086bf (patch) | |
tree | 1392670a24be07b96123cac013ddb665dfa86081 /share | |
parent | 5700d7cbfb7d215893b36715d3ab7f285f32a70b (diff) |
Created a very basic intro.4 man page for Alpha needs more stuff added.
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-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.alpha/Makefile | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.alpha/intro.4 | 88 |
2 files changed, 90 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/Makefile b/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/Makefile index aaad2f50f73..6a14260ea0f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1 1998/03/07 22:42:29 millert Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 1998/03/08 00:09:38 johns Exp $ -MAN= com.4 +MAN= com.4 intro.4 scc.4 MANSUBDIR=/alpha .include <bsd.prog.mk> diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/intro.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/intro.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1df5faab1b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.alpha/intro.4 @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.1 1998/03/08 00:09:39 johns Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The OpenBSD Project +.\" All Rights Reserved. +.\" +.Dd March 7, 1998 +.Dt INTRO 4 alpha +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm intro +.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This section describes 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 Alpha +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 must be rebooted. +.Pp +The autoconfiguration system is described in +.Xr autoconf 4 . +A list of the supported devices is given below. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cd 4 , +.Xr sd 4 , +.Xr ss 4 , +.Xr st 4 , +.Xr autoconf 4 , +.Xr config 8 . +.Sh SUPPORTED SYSTEMS +The following Alpha system architectures and models are supported: +.Bl -tag -width speaker +.It DEC 3000/[3456789]00 series Alpha systems. +.It AlphaStation 200/250/255/400/500 and AXPpci systems. +.El +.Pp +The DECpc AXP 150 systems (EISA-bus PC-like systems), +Alpha "server" systems (other than perhaps the AlphaServer 400, which +might actually be an AlphaStation 400 in disguise), and multiprocessor +Alpha systems are not supported. +.Sh HISTORY +The +Alpha +.Nm +first appeared with OpenBSD 2.3. |