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INTRO(4) NetBSD/sun3 Kernel Interfaces Manual INTRO(4)
NAME
intro -- introduction to sun3 special files and hardware support
DESCRIPTION
This section describes the special files, related driver functions, and
networking support available in the system. In this part of the manual,
the SYNOPSIS section of each configurable device gives a sample specifi-
cation for use in constructing a system description for the config(1)
program. The DIAGNOSTICS section lists messages which may appear on the
console and/or in the system error log /var/log/messages due to errors in
device operation; see syslogd(8) for more information.
This section contains both devices which may be configured into the sys-
tem and network related information. The networking support is intro-
duced in netintro(4).
DEVICE SUPPORT
This section describes the hardware supported on the Sun3 platform.
Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware device
may be supported with a character or block device driver, or it may be
used within the networking subsystem and have a network interface driver.
Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file system
of a special type; see mknod(8). Network interfaces are indirectly
accessed through the interprocess communication facilities provided by
the system; see socket(2).
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 autoconfigura-
tion time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. To enable a
device which did not autoconfigure, the system must be rebooted.
The autoconfiguration system is described in sun3/autoconf(4). A list of
the supported devices is given below.
SEE ALSO
config(1), cd(4), sd(4), ss(4), st(4), sun3/autoconf(4)
SUPPORTED SYSTEMS
The following Sun3 system architectures and models are supported:
sun3 Sun3 systems: (MC68020)
Sun 3/50 (16 MHz)
Sun 3/60 (20 MHz)
Sun 3/100 series (16.67 MHz)
Sun 3/200 series (25 MHz)
sun3x Sun3X systems: (MC68030)
Sun 3/80 (20 MHz)
Sun 3/470 (33 MHz)
LIST OF DEVICES
The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of the system.
Devices are indicated by their functional interface. Not all supported
devices are listed.
bwtwo black and white obio frame buffer
cgtwo 8 bit VMEbus color frame buffer
cgfour 8 bit obio color graphics frame buffer
eeprom Sun non-volatile configuration RAM driver
esp NCR53C90 ESP100 (Sun 3/80) SCSI controller
fd Intel 82072 obio (Sun 3/80) floppy disk drive controller
ie Intel 82586 Ethernet controller (Sun 3/100, 3/200, 3/470)
kbd Sun type 2, type 3, type 4, and type 5 keyboards (on zs)
le/lebuffer
AMD 7990 LANCE Ethernet controller (Sun 3/50, 3/60, 3/80)
ms Sun mouse (on zs)
si NCR5380 "SCSI-3" VMEbus SCSI controller
vme VMEbus support (Sun 3/100, 3/200, 3/470)
xd Xylogics 753/7053 VMEbus SMD disk controller
xy Xylogics 450/451 VMEbus SMD disk controller
zs Zilog 8530 serial controller
UNSUPPORTED DEVICES
The following devices are not supported, due to unavailability of either
documentation or sample hardware:
sc Sun "SCSI-2" VMEbus SCSI controller
HISTORY
This sun3 intro appeared in NetBSD 1.3. Large chunks of text carefully
recycled (shamelessly appropriated) from NetBSD/pmax sun3/intro(4).
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