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),
autoconf(4),
evbmips/aupci(4)
HISTORY
This evbmips
intro appeared in
NetBSD
4.0.