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17.Dd $Mdocdate: October 17 2012 $
18.Dt VLDC 4 sparc64
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vldc
22.Nd virtual channel driver
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vldc* at cbus?"
25.Cd "vldcp* at vldc?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides access to services provided over virtual channels provided by
30the UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on sun4v systems.
31Examples of such services are the Hypervisor Control Interface and the
32Variable Configuration domain service.
33.Sh SEE ALSO
34.Xr cbus 4 ,
35.Xr intro 4
36.Sh HISTORY
37The
38.Nm
39driver first appeared in
40.Ox 5.3 .
41.Sh AUTHORS
42The
43.Nm
44driver was written by
45.An Mark Kettenis Aq kettenis@openbsd.org .
46