intro
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introduction to amiga special files and hardware support
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).
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
amiga/autoconf(4).
A list of the supported devices is given below.
The Amiga intro
man page first appeared in
NetBSD 1.1
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