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.Dd January 12, 2004
.Dt INTRO 4 macppc
.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 MacPPC
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 configuration 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 usscanner(4) -compact -offset indent
.It Xr abtn 4
ADB button.
.It Xr aed 4
ADB Event Device.
.It Xr ahc 4
Adaptec PCI SCSI host adapter driver.
.It Xr akbd 4
ADB keyboard.
.It Xr ams 4
ADB mouse.
.It Xr an 4
Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11FH/b wireless network adapters.
.It Xr aoa 4
Apple "aoa" audio device driver.
.It Xr atu 4
Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b wireless network interfaces.
.It Xr aue 4
ADMtek AN986-based USB Ethernet adapters.
.It Xr awacs 4
Apple audio device.
.It Xr bge 4
Broadcom BCM570x (Tigon3) Gigabit Ethernet boards.
.It Xr bktr 4
Video capture driver.
.It Xr bm 4
BMAC Ethernet.
.It Xr daca 4
Apple "daca" audio device driver.
.It Xr dc 4 , Xr de 4
DEC tulip-based Ethernet cards.
.It Xr eap 4
Ensoniq AudioPCI based audio.
.It Xr em 4
Intel i82542, i82543, and i82544 Pro/1000 Gigabit Ethernet.
.It Xr fxp 4
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet driver.
.It Xr gem 4
GMAC Ethernet.
.It Xr hifn 4
Hifn 7751 crypto accelerator.
.It Xr hme 4
National DP83840 Ethernet cards.
.It Xr iop 4
I2O adapter.
.It Xr kauaiata 4
ATA100 HD controller on PCI bus.
.It Xr ki2c 4
Kauai i2c interface stub.
.It Xr kue 4
Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB Ethernet.
.It Xr lofn 4
Hifn 6500 crypto accelerator.
.\" .It Xr macgpio 4
.\" PMU interrupt router.
.It Xr re 4
Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S Gigabit Ethernet.
.It Xr rtw 4
Realtek RTL8180L IEEE 802.11b wireless network interfaces.
.It Xr safe 4
SafeNet SafeXcel 1141/1741.
.It Xr siop 4
LSI/Symbios Logic/NCR 53c8xx SCSI adapter boards.
.It Xr snapper 4
Apple "snapper" audio device driver.
.It Xr ti 4
Alteon Networks Tigon I and II Gigabit Ethernet driver.
.It Xr tumbler 4
Apple "tumbler" audio device driver.
.It Xr uaudio 4
USB audio devices.
.It Xr ubsec 4
Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator.
.It Xr udav 4
Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet adapters.
.It Xr ukbd 4
USB keyboard.
.It Xr ulpt 4
USB printers.
.It Xr umass 4
USB mass storage.
.It Xr ums 4
USB mouse.
.It Xr uplcom 4
I/O Data USB-RSAQ2 USB serial adapters.
.It Xr uscanner 4
USB scanners.
.It Xr usscanner 4
SCSI-over-USB scanners.
.It Xr vgafb 4
PCI VGA graphics.
.It Xr vge 4
VIA VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet.
.It Xr wi 4
WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3 and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b wireless network adapters.
.It Xr xl 4
3Com EtherLink XL and Fast EtherLink XL Ethernet driver.
.It Xr zs 4
Zilog 8530 serial controller.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoconf 4 ,
.Xr config 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
MacPPC
.Nm
first appeared in
.Ox 3.0 .