TC(4)

NAME
tc - TURBOchannel expansion bus driver

SYNOPSIS

  alpha
tc* at tcasic?

  pmax
tc* at mainbus0

  vax
tc0 at vsbus0

DESCRIPTION
The tc driver provides machine-independent support for the DEC TURBOchannel expansion bus found on all DEC 5000-series machines with MIPS, DEC 3000-series with Alpha processors and VAXstation 4000 machines with the optional TURBOchannel adaptor.

Your system may support additional TURBOchannel devices. Drivers for TURBOchannel devices not listed here are machine-dependent. Consult your system's intro(4) for additional information.

HARDWARE
NetBSD includes machine-independent TURBOchannel drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:

  SCSI interfaces

asc PMAZ-A single-channel SCSI adapter

tcds
    PMAZ-DS, PMAZ-FS, PMAZB-AA and PMAZC-AA dual-channel SCSI adapters

  Network interfaces

fta PMAF-F DEFTA FDDI controller

le  LANCE Ethernet interface

  Frame buffers

cfb PMAG-B CX colour unaccelerated 2-D framebuffer

mfb PMAG-A MX monochrome framebuffer

px  PMAG-C PX accelerated graphics boards

pxg PMAG-D, PMAG-E and PMAG-F PXG accelerated graphics boards

sfb PMAGB-BA HX colour unaccelerated 2-D framebuffer

tfb PMAG-J TX 24-bit colour unaccelerated 2-D framebuffer

  Miscellaneous

ioasic
    baseboard IO control ASIC for DEC TURBOchannel systems

tcu TC-USB USB host and GPIO option

SEE ALSO
asc(4), cfb(4), fta(4), intro(4), ioasic(4), le(4), mfb(4), px(4), pxg(4), sfb(4), tcds(4), tcu(4), tfb(4)

HISTORY
The tc driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.1.

BUGS
The tc driver makes poor use of interrupt priority on the 5000/1xx series systems.