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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/presto.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/presto.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ea8d1182bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/presto.4 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: presto.4,v 1.1 2003/04/13 23:15:46 miod Exp $ +.\" Copyright (c) 2003, Miodrag Vallat +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE +.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, +.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES +.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR +.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, +.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN +.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd April 13, 2003 +.Dt PRESTO 4 sparc +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm presto +.Nd Prestoserve battery-backed memory +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd presto* at sbus? slot ? offset ? +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Tn Legato +Prestoserve NVRAM cards +used to be part of the +.Dq NFS accelerator +product, which used the cards memory as an NFS-dedicated cache, increasing +performance of NFS servers exporting filesystem as NFS protocol, version 2. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver does not attempt to achieve such a behaviour, which is questionable +with the advent of NFS protocol, version 3. +.Pp +Instead, it will provide direct access to the NVRAM, as a block device. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/rprestoXXXXX -compact +.It Pa /dev/presto Ns Ar u Ns Ar p +block mode Prestoserve card number +.Ar u , +partition +.Ar p +.It Pa /dev/rpresto Ns Ar u Ns Ar p +raw mode Prestoserve card number +.Ar u , +partition +.Ar p +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr disklabel 5 , +.Xr MAKEDEV 8 , +.Xr disklabel 8 +.Sh BUGS +The NVSIMM flavour, designed for SPARCstation models 10 and 20, is not +supported yet. |