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32.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2017 $
33.Dt IOASIC 4 alpha
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm ioasic
37.Nd
38baseboard IO control ASIC for DEC TURBOchannel systems
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Cd "ioasic0 at tc? slot ? offset ?"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the DEC proprietary IOCTL ASIC found on
45DEC 3000 TURBOchannel machines.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49provides hardware DMA channels and interrupt support for several
50baseboard devices, including one
51.Xr asc 4
52SCSI device with a scatter/gather DMA channel, an mc146818-compatible
53.Nm mcclock ,
54an Am7930 audio device
55.Xr bba 4 ,
56two
57.Xr zs 4
58dual-port serial devices, and an AMD 7990 LANCE
59.Xr le 4
60Ethernet interface.
61.Pp
62The
63.Nm
64is also used for the audio/ISDN hardware on
65audio-equipped TURBOchannel Alphas,
66where the
67.Nm
68hardware provides a scatter-gather DMA channel between the 16-bit
69device and the 32-bit
70.Nm tc
71DMA address space.
72.Pp
73Support for scatter-gather DMA eliminates the need for additional copying.
74.Sh SEE ALSO
75.Xr asc 4 ,
76.Xr bba 4 ,
77.Xr intro 4 ,
78.Xr le 4 ,
79.Xr zs 4
80.Sh HISTORY
81The
82.Nm
83driver
84first appeared in
85.Nx 1.1 ,
86derived from DECstation boot-time configuration code in
87.Bx 4.4  .
88