1.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.4 2001/12/05 05:46:55 jason Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The OpenBSD Project 4.\" All Rights Reserved. 5.\" 6.Dd October 4, 2001 7.Dt INTRO 4 sparc64 8.Os 9.Sh NAME 10.Nm intro 11.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support 12.Sh DESCRIPTION 13The manual pages in section 4 describe the special files, 14related driver functions, and networking support 15available in the system. 16In this part of the manual, the 17.Tn SYNOPSIS 18section of 19each configurable device gives a sample specification 20for use in constructing a system description for the 21.Xr config 8 22program. 23The 24.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 25section lists messages which may appear on the console 26and/or in the system error log 27.Pa /var/log/messages 28due to errors in device operation; 29see 30.Xr syslogd 8 31for more information. 32.Pp 33This section contains both devices 34which may be configured into the system 35and network related information. 36The networking support is introduced in 37.Xr netintro 4 . 38.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT 39This section describes the hardware supported on the 40sparc64 41platform. 42Software support for these devices comes in two forms. 43A hardware device may be supported with a character or block 44.Em device driver , 45or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 46.Em network interface driver . 47Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 48system of a special type; see 49.Xr mknod 8 . 50Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 51communication facilities provided by the system; see 52.Xr socket 2 . 53.Pp 54A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 55and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 56into the system. 57When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities 58in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software 59support for it. 60If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration 61time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. 62To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, 63the system will have to be rebooted. 64.Pp 65The autoconfiguration system is described in 66.Xr autoconf 4 . 67A list of the supported devices is given below. 68.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 69The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 70the system. 71Pseudo-devices are not listed. 72Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 73Not all supported devices are listed. 74.Pp 75.Bl -tag -width le/lebuffer -compact -offset indent 76.It audioce 77EBus CS4231 based audio. 78.It audiocs 79SBus CS4231 based audio. 80.It be 8110BaseT/100BaseTX SBus Ethernet controller. 82.It cgsix 838 bit SBus color graphics frame buffer. 84.It cgthree 858 bit SBus color graphics frame buffer. 86.It esp 87ESP SCSI controller. 88.It hme 89SBus HME Ethernet controllers (SunSwift). 90.It isp 91Qlogic ISP SBus SCSI controller. 92.It le/lebuffer 93AMD 7990 LANCE ethernet controller. 94.It openprom 95Sun Open boot PROM (what became IEEE 1275) configuration driver. 96.It qe 97Quad 10BaseT SBus Ethernet controller. 98.It qec 99Supported as carrier for 100.Nm be 101or 102.Nm qe 103Ethernet controllers. 104.It sab 105Infineon SAB82532 serial controller. 106.It zs 107Zilog 8530 serial controller. 108.El 109.Sh SEE ALSO 110.Xr autoconf 4 , 111.Xr config 8 112.Sh HISTORY 113The 114sparc64 115.Nm intro 116first appeared in 117.Ox 3.0 . 118