NAME
obio
- introduction to Macintosh On-Board IO bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
obio0 at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
The
obio
interface serves as an abstraction used by the autoconfiguration
system to help find and attach devices (e.g. the Ethernet or disk
controllers) connected to the Macintosh onboard I/O bus.
HARDWARE
NetBSD
includes machine-dependent
On-Board
drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
SCSI interfaces
- esp
-
NCR 53C9x
SCSI
interfaces.
- mesh
-
Apple Macintosh Enhanced SCSI Hardware
SCSI
interfaces.
Disk and tape controllers
- wdc
-
Standard IDE/ATAPI type hard drive controllers.
- mediabay
-
Standard IDE/ATAPI type CD-ROM drive controllers in PowerBooks.
Network interfaces
- bm
-
Apple BMac ethernet interface.
- mc
-
Apple MACE ethernet interface.
- gem
-
GMAC ethernet interface.
- wi
-
WaveLAN/IEEE and PRISM-II 802.11 wireless interfaces.
Serial interfaces
- zsc
-
Zilog 8530 serial communications interfaces.
Audio devices
- awacs
-
Apple's
`audio waveform amplifier and converter for sound'
audio device found on most macppc models. May not work on
several G4 and iBook models.
Miscellaneous devices
- adb
-
Apple Desktop Bus for keyboards, mice, and other input devices.
- nvram
-
Placeholder device for the persistant system settings.
SEE ALSO
adb(4),
autoconf(4),
awacs(4),
bm(4),
esp(4),
gem(4),
intro(4),
mc(4),
mediabay(4),
mesh(4),
wdc(4),
wi(4),
zsc(4)
HISTORY
obio
first appeared in
NetBSD1.2.