NAME
intro
- introduction to amiga 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).
AMIGA DEVICE SUPPORT
This section describes the hardware supported on the
Amiga.
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 will have to be rebooted.
The autoconfiguration system is described in
autoconf(4).
A list of the supported devices is given below.
SEE ALSO
config(1),
autoconf(4)
HISTORY
The
Amiga
intro
man page first appeared in
NetBSD1.1
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.
- afsc
-
A4091 low level SCSI adapter interface
- ahsc
-
A3000 low level SCSI adapter interface
- atzsc
-
A2091 low level SCSI adapter interface
- ed
-
DP8390-based Ethernet interface
- es
-
SMC91C90-based Ethernet interface
- fdc
-
Floppy disk controller device
- fd
-
Floppy disk device
- grf
-
frame buffer for Custom Chips and graphics cards
- grfcl
-
color graphics driver for
GVP Spectrum/Picasso II, II+ and IV/Piccolo/Piccolo SD64 cards
- grfcv
-
color graphics driver for the Cybervision 64
- grfcv3d
-
color graphics driver for the Cybervision 64/3D
- grfet
-
color graphics driver for Domino/Domino16M proto/oMniBus/Merlin cards
- grful
-
color graphics driver for the A2410
- grfrh
-
color graphics driver for Retina BLT Z3 and Altais cards
- grfrt
-
color graphics driver for the Retina Z2
- gtsc
-
GVP low level SCSI adapter interface
- gvpbus
-
GVP custom bus
- kbd
-
Amiga Keyboard device
- kmem
-
kernel virtual memory
- ite
-
Amiga Internal Terminal Emulator
- ivsc
-
IVS low level SCSI adapter interface
- le
-
AMD 7990 and AMD 79C960 Lance-based Ethernet interface
- mem
-
physical memory
- mfcs
-
MultiFaceCard II/II serial interface
- mgnsc
-
Magnum 40 low level SCSI adapter interface
- otgsc
-
12 Gauge low level SCSI adapter interface
- par
-
8520 built-in parallel interface
- ser
-
8520 built-in serial interface
- wesc
-
Warp Engine low level SCSI adapter interface
- wstsc
-
Wordsync II low level SCSI adapter interface
- zssc
-
Zeus low level SCSI adapter interface
- zbus
-
Amiga Zorro II/III bus