NAME
ofisa
- introduction to machine-independent Open Firmware ISA bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
ofisa* at mainbus0
XX* at ofisa?
DESCRIPTION
NetBSD
includes a machine-independent
ISA
bus subsystem and several machine-independent
ISA
device drivers.
The
ofisa
bus uses Open Firmware to determine how to attach devices.
HARDWARE
NetBSD
includes machine-independent Open Firmware
ISA
drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
Disk and tape controllers
- wdc
-
Standard Western Digital type hard drive controllers: MFM, RLL, ESDI,
and IDE/ATAPI.
Serial and parallel interfaces
- com
-
NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial ports.
- lpt
-
Standard
ISA
parallel port interface.
Network interfaces
- cs
-
Cirrus Logic
Crystal CS8900
Ethernet
interfaces.
Sound cards and MIDI interfaces
- ess
-
ESS Technology AudioDrive 1788-, 1888-, 1887-, and 888-based sound cards.
Miscellaneous devices
- joy
-
Game (joystick) adapters.
SEE ALSO
com(4),
cs(4),
ess(4),
intro(4),
isa(4),
joy(4),
lpt(4),
wdc(4)
HISTORY
The Open Firmware
ISA
subsystem appeared in
NetBSD1.4.