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.Dd March 4, 2005
.Dt INTRO 4 sparc64
.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
sparc64
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 zs/zstty/zskbd(4) -compact -offset indent
.It Xr agten 4
Fujitsu AG-10e frame buffer.
.It Xr ahc 4
Adaptec 2xxx and 3xxx series PCI/VLB/EISA SCSI adapter boards.
.It Xr apio 4
Aurora SBus pio1 parallel ports.
.It Xr asio 4
Aurora SBus sio2 serial ports.
.It Xr atu 4
Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b wireless network interfaces.
.It Xr audioce 4
EBus CS4231 based audio.
.It Xr audiocs 4
SBus CS4231 based audio.
.It Xr autri 4
PCI Trident 4DWAVE DX/NX, SiS 7018, ALi M5451 audio.
.It Xr be 4
10BaseT/100BaseTX SBus Ethernet controller.
.It Xr beeper 4
Simple speaker beeper.
.It Xr bwtwo 4
SBus monochrome frame buffer.
.It Xr central 4
Central bus controller.
.It Xr cgsix 4
accelerated 8 bit SBus color frame buffer.
.It Xr cgthree 4
8 bit SBus color frame buffer.
.It Xr cgtwelve 4
accelerated 24 bit SBus color frame buffer.
.It Xr clkbrd 4
Main system clock for E4500.
.It Xr clock 4
Realtime clock.
.It Xr com 4
EBUS clones of the NS16550 serial UART.
.It Xr comkbd 4
Sun serial keyboards on
.Xr com 4
ports.
.It Xr creator 4
UPA Creator/Creator 3D/Elite 3D color frame buffer.
.It Xr dc 4
Clones of the DEC Tulip Ethernet controller.
.It Xr eap 4
Ensoniq AudioPCI based audio.
.It Xr eso 4
ESS Technology Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive based audio.
.It Xr esp 4
ESP SCSI controller.
.It Xr fhc 4
FireHose controller.
.It Xr fxp 4
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet driver.
.It Xr gem 4
GEM Gigabit Ethernet interface.
.It Xr hifn 4
Hifn 7751/7811/7951 cryptography accelerators.
.It Xr hme 4
Sun HME Ethernet controllers (SunSwift).
.It Xr isp 4
Qlogic ISP SCSI controller.
.It Xr le/lebuffer 4
AMD 7990 LANCE Ethernet controller.
.It Xr lofn 4
Hifn 6500 public key cryptography engine.
.It Xr lpt 4
Parallel port driver.
.It Xr magma 4
MAGMA serial/parallel communication boards.
.It Xr mgx 4
.Tn Southland Media Systems
MGX and MGXPlus frame buffers.
.It Xr openprom 4
Sun Open boot PROM (what became IEEE 1275) configuration driver.
.It Xr pckbd 4
PS/2-style keyboard driver.
.It Xr pcons 4
PROM console input/output device.
.It Xr pms/pmsi 4
PS/2 auxiliary port mouse driver.
.It Xr qe 4
Quad 10BaseT SBus Ethernet controller.
.It Xr qec 4
Supported as carrier for
.Nm be
or
.Nm qe
Ethernet controllers.
.It Xr re 4
Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S Gigabit Ethernet.
.It Xr rfx 4
Vitec/Connectware/AP&D
.Tn RasterFlex
framebuffer series.
.It Xr sab 4
Infineon (formerly Siemens) SAB82532 serial controller.
.It Xr siop 4
LSI/Symbios Logic/NCR 53c8xxx SCSI driver.
.It Xr spif 4
Sun SUNW,spif serial/parallel communication boards.
.It Xr stp 4
SBus
.Xr pcmcia 4
bridge.
.It Xr ti 4
Alteon Networks Tigon I and II Gigabit Ethernet driver.
.It Xr timer 4
Onboard system timer.
.It Xr tvtwo 4
Parallax XVideo and PowerVideo 24 bit SBus color frame buffer.
.It Xr ubsec 4
Bluesteelnet 5501/5601, Broadcom 5805/5820/5821 cryptography accelerators.
.It Xr ukbd 4
USB keyboard.
.It Xr ums 4
USB mouse.
.It Xr uperf 4
Performance counters on SBUS/PCI machines.
.It Xr ural 4
Ralink Technology RT2500 USB 2.0 IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network adapters.
.It Xr vgafb 4
PCI graphics frame buffer.
.It Xr vigra 4
8 bit SBus color framebuffer with VGA-compatible modes and connector.
.It Xr wi 4
WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3 and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b wireless network adapters.
.It Xr xbox 4
SBus Expansion subsystem.
.It Xr xl 4
xl 3Com EtherLink XL and Fast EtherLink XL Ethernet driver.
.It Xr zs/zstty/zskbd 4
Zilog 8530 serial controller (and serial keyboards).
.It Xr zx 4
24 bit accelerated SBus color frame buffer.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoconf 4 ,
.Xr config 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
sparc64
.Nm intro
first appeared in
.Ox 3.0 .