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8.6 KiB
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300 lines
8.6 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Jonathan Stone.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone.
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.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission
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.\" $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.17 2003/04/06 21:05:08 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd February 2, 2002
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.Dt INTRO 4 sparc
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm intro
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.Nd introduction to sparc special files and hardware support
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This section describes the special files, related driver functions,
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and networking support
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available in the system.
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In this part of the manual, the
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.Tn SYNOPSIS
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section of
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each configurable device gives a sample specification
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for use in constructing a system description for the
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.Xr config 8
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program.
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The
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.Tn DIAGNOSTICS
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section lists messages which may appear on the console
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and/or in the system error log
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.Pa /var/log/messages
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due to errors in device operation;
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see
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.Xr syslogd 8
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for more information.
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.Pp
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This section contains both devices
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which may be configured into the system
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and network related information.
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The networking support is introduced in
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.Xr netintro 4 .
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.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT
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This section describes the hardware supported on the SPARC
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platform.
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Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware
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device may be supported with a character or block
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.Em device driver ,
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or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
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.Em network interface driver .
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Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file
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system of a special type; see
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.Xr mknod 8 .
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Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess
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communication facilities provided by the system; see
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.Xr socket 2 .
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.Pp
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A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time
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and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled
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into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the
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autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device
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and, if found, enable the software support for it.
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If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration
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time it is not accessible at any time afterwards.
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To enable a device which did not autoconfigure,
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the system must be rebooted.
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.Pp
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The autoconfiguration system is described in
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.Xr autoconf 4 .
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A list of the supported devices is given below.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr autoconf 4 ,
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.Xr bwtwo 4 ,
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.Xr cd 4 ,
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.Xr cgeight 4 ,
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.Xr cgfour 4 ,
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.Xr cgfourteen 4 ,
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.Xr cgsix 4 ,
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.Xr cgthree 4 ,
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.Xr cgtwo 4 ,
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.Xr ch 4 ,
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.Xr fd 4 ,
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.Xr kbd 4 ,
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.Xr le 4 ,
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.Xr magma 4 ,
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.Xr mem 4 ,
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.Xr ms 4 ,
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.Xr openprom 4 ,
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.Xr scsi 4 ,
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.Xr sd 4 ,
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.Xr ss 4 ,
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.Xr st 4 ,
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.Xr tcx 4 ,
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.Xr uk 4 ,
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.Xr config 8
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.Sh SUPPORTED SYSTEMS
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The following Sun SPARC system architectures and models are supported:
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.Bl -tag -width speaker
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.It sun4
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first generation SPARC systems on VMEbus:
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.br
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Sun 4/100 series (14.28 MHz)
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.br
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Sun 4/200 series (16.67 MHz)
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.br
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Sun 4/300 series (25 MHz)
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.It sun4c
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desktop SPARC systems with Sbus:
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.br
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SPARCstation 1 (20 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation 1+ (25 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation 2 (40 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation SLC (20 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation ELC (33 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation IPC (25 MHz)
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.br
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SPARCstation IPX (40 MHz).
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.It sun4m
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desktop SPARC systems with Mbus for CPUs, and Sbus:
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.br
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SPARCclassic (50 MHz microSPARC I)
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.br
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SPARC LX (50 MHz microSPARC I)
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.br
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SPARCstation 4 (70 MHz microSPARC II)
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.br
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SPARCstation 5 (70, 85, 110 MHz microSPARC II)
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.br
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SPARCstation 5 (170 MHz TurboSPARC)
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.br
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SPARCstation 10M (36 MHz SuperSPARC I)
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.br
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SPARCstation 20M (50 MHz SuperSPARC I)
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.br
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SPARCstation 10 (Mbus modules)
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.br
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SPARCstation 20 (Mbus modules)
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.El
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.Pp
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The SPARCstation 2 and IPX can be upgraded with a Weitek PowerUP CPU
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that is clock-doubled (i.e. internally it runs at 80 MHz).
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.Nx
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supports this configuration.
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.Pp
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Hardware level clones of these systems from other manufacturers
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will likely work (e.g. Xerox, Tatung, Axil, Cycle);
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other systems which have a SPARC CPU but do not
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use Sun's hardware architecture (e.g. Solbourne) will likely not work.
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.Pp
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The sun4m architecture with Mbus modules for the CPUs is supported
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with the following modules with only one CPU:
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.Bl -tag -width speaker
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.It SM41
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40 MHz SuperSPARC I with 1MB SuperCACHE
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.It SM51
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50 MHz SuperSPARC I with 1MB SuperCACHE
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.It SM61
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60 MHz SuperSPARC I with 1MB SuperCACHE
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.It SM71
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75 MHz SuperSPARC II with 1MB SuperCACHE
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.It SM81
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85 MHz SuperSPARC II with 1MB SuperCACHE
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.It HS11
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100 MHz Ross Technology hyperSPARC
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.It HS21
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125 MHz Ross Technology hyperSPARC
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.It M151
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150 MHz Ross Technology hyperSPARC
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.El
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.Pp
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This list is not exhaustive;
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.Nx
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is continuously being improved, and may well run on Mbus CPU modules
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not listed here.
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.Pp
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There is also some support for Sun
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.Tn JavaStation
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computers based on the microSPARC CPU.
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.Pp
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.Nx
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does not yet properly support multiprocessor systems,
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but will run on one processor of a multiprocessor system.
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.Pp
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The Sun 4/400 series, and sun4d (SPARCcenter 1000, 1000E, and
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2000) are not supported.
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.Pp
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The sun4u (UltraSPARC 64-bit) architectures are supported by
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.Nx Ns Tn /sparc64 .
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.Sh LIST OF DEVICES
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The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
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the system. Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
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Not all supported devices are listed.
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width cgfourteen
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.It audio
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AMD 79C30 obio (sun4c) audio controller
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.It bwtwo
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black and white obio frame buffer
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.It cgeight
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24 bit VMEbus color frame buffer
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.It cgfour
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8 bit obio (sun4 P4 bus) color graphics frame buffer
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.It cgfourteen
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24 bit Sbus color frame buffer
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.It cgsix
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8 bit obio (sun4c \*[Am] sun4m), Sbus color graphics frame buffer
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.It cgthree
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8 bit VMEbus, Sbus, and obio (sun4m) color graphics frame buffer
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.It cgtwo
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8 bit VMEbus color frame buffer
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.It eeprom
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Sun non-volatile configuration RAM driver
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.It esp
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NCR53C90 ESP100 (Sun 4/300), ESP100A (sun4c),
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ESP200 (sun4m) SCSI controller
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.br
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FSBE/S (X1053A, part # 501-2015) Fast SCSI-2/Buffered Ethernet Sbus controller
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.It fd
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Intel 82072 obio (sun4c) or Intel 82077 obio (sun4m)
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floppy disk drive controller
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.It ie
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Intel 82586 Ethernet controller (Sun 4/100)
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.It isp
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Qlogic ISP Sbus SCSI controller
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.It kbd
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Sun type 2, type 3, type 4, and type 5 keyboards (on zs)
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.It le/lebuffer
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AMD 7990 LANCE Ethernet controller (Sun 4/200, 4/300, sun4c, sun4m, Sbus)
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.It magma
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Magma Sp Serial/Parallel board device driver
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.It ms
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Sun mouse (on zs)
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.It openprom
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Sun Open boot PROM (what became IEEE 1275) configuration driver
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.It power
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sun4m power management; the
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.Xr halt 8
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and
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.Xr shutdown 8
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commands can use it to power down the system.
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.It si
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NCR5380 "SCSI-2" VMEbus (Sun 4/200, Sun 4/400) SCSI controller
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.It sw
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NCR5380 obio (Sun 4/100) "SCSI Wierd" SCSI controller
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.It tcx
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8 or 24 bit Sbus color graphics frame buffer
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.It xd
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Xylogics 753/7053 VMEbus SMD disk controller
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.It xy
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Xylogics 450/451 VMEbus SMD disk controller
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.It zs
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Zilog 8530 serial controller
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.El
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.Sh UNSUPPORTED DEVICES
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The following devices are not supported, due to unavailability of
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either documentation or sample hardware:
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.Bl -tag -width speaker
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.It bpp
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Bi-directional Parallel port
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.It dbri
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Dual Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISDN (SPARC LX \*[Am] SPARCstation 10)
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.It audio
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sun4m audio that is dependent on the dbri
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.El
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.Sh HISTORY
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This
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.Tn sparc
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.Nm intro
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appeared with
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.Nx 1.3 .
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Large chunks of text carefully recycled (shamelessly appropriated) from
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.Nx Ns Tn /pmax
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.Xr intro 4 .
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