NAME

intro — introduction to 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 specification 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 system and network related information. The networking support is introduced in netintro(4).

DEVICE SUPPORT

This section describes the hardware supported by NetBSD/evbmips. 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 autoconfiguration 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 autoconf(4). A list of the supported devices is given below.

HARDWARE

The following systems are supported:

4G Systems MTX-1

AMD Alchemy DBAU1000

AMD Alchemy DBAU1100

AMD Alchemy DBAU1500

AMD Alchemy DBAU1550

AMD Alchemy Pb1000

AMD Alchemy Pb1100

AMD Alchemy Pb1500

AMD Alchemy Pb1550

Atheros AR5001AP

MIPS Malta

Plat'Home OpenMicroServer OMSAL-400

Senao/Engenius 5354AP1 Aries2

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.

ae, aumac

10/100 Ethernet

arbus, aubus

Local system bus

aupci

PCI bridge

aucom, com

serial communications interface

ohci

USB 1.1 host controller

PCI devices are supported through the pci(4) bus and associated device drivers.

USB devices are supported through the usb(4) bus and associated device drivers.

SEE ALSO

config(1), aupci(4), autoconf(4)

HISTORY

This evbmips intro appeared in NetBSD 4.0.