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.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2008 $
.Dt INTRO 4 sparc
.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
.Sx SYNOPSIS
section of
each configurable device gives a sample specification
for use in constructing a system description for the
.Xr config 8
program.
The
.Sx 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 sorted by their type and driver name;
not all supported devices are listed.
.Ss Audio interfaces
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr audioamd 4
SPARC telephone quality audio device
.It Xr audiocs 4
SPARC CS4231 audio device
.El
.Ss Frame buffers
.Bl -tag -width 14n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr agten 4
Fujitsu AG-10e accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr bwtwo 4
monochromatic frame buffer
.It Xr cgeight 4
24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgfour 4
8-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgfourteen 4
accelerated 8/24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgsix 4
accelerated 8-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgthree 4
8-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgtwelve 4
accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr cgtwo 4
8-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr mgx 4
SMS MGX and MGXPlus accelerated 8/24-bit color frame buffers
.It Xr rfx 4
Vitec/Connectware/AP&D RasterFlex framebuffer series
.It Xr tcx 4
accelerated 8/24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr tvtwo 4
accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer
.It Xr vigra 4
8-bit SBus color frame buffer with VGA-compatible modes
.It Xr zx 4
accelerated 24-bit color frame buffer
.El
.Ss Network interfaces
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr be 4
SPARC 10/100 Ethernet device
.It Xr ep 4
3Com EtherLink III and Fast EtherLink III 10/100 Ethernet device
.It Xr hme 4
Sun Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet device
.It Xr ie 4
Intel i82586 Ethernet device
.It Xo Xr le 4 ,
.Xr lebuffer 4 ,
.Xr ledma 4
.Xc
AMD LANCE Ethernet device
.It Xr ne 4
NE2000 and compatible 10/100 Ethernet device
.It Xr qe 4
SPARC 10/100 Ethernet device
.It Xr qec 4
SPARC Quad Ethernet Controller
.It Xr wi 4
WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
.El
.Ss PCMCIA bridges
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr stp 4
SBus PCMCIA bridge
.El
.Ss SCSI adapters
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr esp 4
ESP NCR 53c94 on-board or SBus SCSI interface
.It Xr isp 4
QLogic based SCSI or Fibre Channel SCSI interface
.It Xr si 4
NCR 5380 Sun SCSI 3 VME SCSI controller
.It Xr sw 4
NCR 5380 SCSI Weird Sun 4/100 on-board SCSI controller
.El
.Ss Serial and parallel interfaces
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr magma 4
Magma Sp Serial/Parallel board device driver
.It Xr spif 4
SBus (spiffy) Serial/Parallel Interface
.It Xo Xr zs 4 ,
.Xr zstty 4 ,
.Xr zskbd 4
.Xc
Zilog 8530 (ZSCC) serial communications driver
.El
.Ss SMD controllers
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr xd 4
Xylogics 753 or 7053 VME SMD disk controller driver
.It Xr xy 4
Xylogics 450 or 451 VME SMD disk controller driver
.El
.Ss Force CPU-5 specific devices
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr daadio 4
MATRIX MD-DAADIO digital/analog, analog/digital, parallel I/O board
.It Xr fga 4
SPARC Force FGA5000 VME/SBus bridge driver
.It Xr scf 4
SPARC Force sysconfig driver
.El
.Ss Tadpole SPARCbook specific devices
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr com 4
serial communications interface
.It Xr pninek 4
Weitek Power9000 accelerated frame buffer
.It Xr pnozz 4
Weitek Power9100 accelerated frame buffer
.It Xr tctrl 4
Tadpole Microcontroller Interface
.It Xr tslot 4
Tadpole PCMCIA Controller
.El
.Ss Miscellaneous devices
.Bl -tag -width 12n -compact -offset ind
.It Xr clock 4
SPARC64 FireHose Controller
.It Xr fdc 4
NEC765 compatible floppy disk driver
.It Xr led 4
SPARC LED driver
.It Xr openprom 4
OPENPROM and EEPROM interface
.It Xr presto 4
Prestoserve battery-backed memory
.It Xr timer 4
SPARC Timer
.It Xr xbox 4
SPARC SBus Expansion Subsystem
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoconf 4 ,
.Xr config 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
sparc
.Nm
first appeared in
.Ox 2.3 .