PODULEBUS(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual PODULEBUS(4)

NAME

podulebusAcorn Expansion Card bus driver

SYNOPSIS

podulebus0 at ioc0 bank 4 (NetBSD/acorn26)
podulebus0 at root (NetBSD/acorn32)

DESCRIPTION

The podulebus driver handles the expansion-card interface in Archimedes machines and their successors. This includes conventional expansion cards, mini expansion cards (as introduced in the A3000), network expansion cards (as introduced in the A3020), DEBI expansion cards (as introduced in the Risc PC), and Mk II network cards (also introduced in the Risc PC). Drivers for individual cards attach as children of the podulebus device.

NetBSD includes several machine-independent expansion card device drivers. There are also some device drivers which are specific to NetBSD/acorn26 or NetBSD/acorn32.

HARDWARE

The following devices are supported by NetBSD.

SCSI interfaces

asc
Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards (NetBSD/acorn32).
cosc
MCS Connect32 SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).
csa
Cumana 8-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).
csc
Cumana 16-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).
hcsc
HCCS 8-bit SCSI interface.
oak
Oak SCSI interface.
ptsc
Powertec SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).
sec
Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards.

Disk controllers

dtide
D.T. Software IDE controller.
hcide
HCCS IDE controller.
icside
ICS IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).
rapide
Yellowstone Educational Solutions RapIDE IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).
simide
Simtec IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).

Network interfaces

ea
Atomwide A-10xx and Acorn AEH54 Ethernet cards (Ether3).
eb
Atomwide and ANT network-slot and Acorn AEH61 Ethernet cards (EtherB).
eh
i-cubed EtherLan 100-, 200- and 500-series, and Acorn AEH75, AEH77, and AEH79 Ethernet cards (EtherH) (NetBSD/acorn26).
ei
Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1).
ie
Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1) (NetBSD/acorn32).
ne
Various vaguely NE2000-compatible Ethernet cards (NetBSD/acorn32).

Serial interfaces

amps
Atomwide multi-port serial interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

SEE ALSO

acorn26/eh(4), acorn32/asc(4), acorn32/cosc(4), acorn32/csc(4), acorn32/ie(4), acorn32/ptsc(4), dtide(4), ea(4), eb(4), ei(4), hcide(4), ne(4), oak(4), sec(4)

BUGS

Too few drivers are shared between NetBSD/acorn26 and NetBSD/acorn32.
October 26, 2006 NetBSD 6.1