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Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Jonathan Stone.
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.\" $NetBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.9 2000/07/05 16:13:51 msaitoh Exp $
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.\"
.Dd August 6, 1996
.Dt IOASIC 4 pmax
More and more of .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file, so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to come.
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm ioasic
.Nd
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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baseboard IO control ASIC for DEC TurboChannel systems
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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.Cd "ioasic0 at tc?"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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driver provides support for the DEC proprietary IOCTL ASIC found on
all DEC TurboChannel machines with MIPS (DECstation 5000 series,
excluding the 5000/200) and Alpha (3000-series) processors.
On these machines (including the 5000/200), all baseboard devices should be
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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configured as children of the
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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.Nm
device.
.Pp
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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The
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
1997-10-31 05:26:09 +03:00
.Nm
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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provides hardware DMA channels and interrupt support for several
baseboard devices, including one
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Nm asc
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
SCSI device with a scatter/gather DMA channel, an mc146818-compatible
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
1997-10-31 05:26:09 +03:00
.Nm mcclock,
Update bba(4) man page and xref it.
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an Am9730 audio device
.Nm bba ,
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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one or two
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Nm scc
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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two-port serial devices, and a AMD 9770 LANCE
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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.Nm le
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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Ethernet interface.
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Pp
The
.Nm
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
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is also used for the floppy-disc drive and audio/ISDN hardware on
the Personal DECstation and audio-equipped TurboChannel Alphas,
where the
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
1996-08-11 06:28:43 +04:00
.Nm
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
hardware provides a scatter-gather DMA channel between the 16-bit
device and the 32-bit
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
1997-10-31 05:26:09 +03:00
.Nm tc
DMA address space.
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Pp
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
1997-10-31 05:26:09 +03:00
Support for scatter-gather DMA eliminates the need for additional copying.
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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A baseboard
.Nm asc
SCSI adaptor attached to an
.Nm ioasic
will give slightly better performance than its
.Nm tc
counterpart.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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.Xr mcclock 4 ,
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Xr asc 4 ,
Update bba(4) man page and xref it.
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.Xr bba 4 ,
Create man4.pmax. Note: Some manpages are for drivers shared with Alpha; should rewrite accordingly and move to a better location.
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.Xr le 4 ,
.Xr scc 4 ,
{add,remove} extra {comma,period} in SEE ALSO section
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.Xr tc 4
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.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver
first appeared in
.Nx 1.1 ,
* Fix several mandoc typos. Describe ioasic DMA channels as mapping from 16-bit device addresses to 32-bit TC DMA space. * Sync with reality (pmax config now attaches ioasic at tc, not vice-versa, for compatibility with the Alpha.)
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derived from DECstation boot-time configuration code in
.Bx 4.4 .
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.Sh BUGS
Herewith I commit the results of a several hour romp through the pmax section 4 documentation, inspired by PR#4527. Lots of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors corrected. A foolish consistency (the hobgoblin of my small mind) in capitalization enforced for certain trademarks (DECthis, DECthat, and so on). A little white space added here and there for clarity. Some nroff peccadillos tended to. Further remarks over issues not dealt with will be committed in the PR.
1998-03-20 16:31:57 +03:00
The DECstation 5000/200 does not actually have an IOASIC
chip, but for consistency it must be configured as if it did.