NEPTUNE(4) |
Kernel Interfaces Manual (X68k) |
NEPTUNE(4) |
NAME
neptune — Neptune-X ISA bridge driver
SYNOPSIS
neptune0 at intio0 addr 0xece000 irq 239
ne0 at neptune? addr 0x300
DESCRIPTION
The Neptune-X is a Ethernet interface card initially designed by Hirofumi Shimada, which uses popular NE2000 or its clone with its own x68k-proprietary bus to ISA bus bridge.
The NetBSD neptune driver takes charge of the ISA bridge part of the Neptune-X. It is implemented as a more generic `bus' with its own bus_space(9) interface, and is intended to be used with ne(4) driver.
HISTORY
The neptune device appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
BUGS
neptune itself is always detected when it is specified in the kernel config file. This is because the Neptune-X ISA bridge is transparent to software. The attached device is detected appropriately.