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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
| commit | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a81ca3665e6153923e40db7b0d988f8573ab59c /static/netbsd/man4/ioasic.4 | |
| parent | a59214f344567c037d5776879bcfc5fcc1d4d5f6 (diff) | |
feat: Added NetBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/ioasic.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/ioasic.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e763440b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/ioasic.4 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.5 2017/09/12 14:48:44 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Jonathan Stone. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone. +.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd September 12, 2007 +.Dt IOASIC 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ioasic +.Nd +baseboard IO control ASIC for DEC TURBOchannel systems +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "ioasic0 at tc? slot ? offset ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +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 configured as children of the +.Nm +device. +.Pp +The +.Nm +provides hardware DMA channels and interrupt support for several +baseboard devices, including one +.Nm asc +SCSI device with a scatter/gather DMA channel, an mc146818-compatible +.Nm mcclock , +an Am7930 audio device +.Nm bba , +one or two +.Nm zs +two-port serial devices, and a AMD 7990 LANCE +.Nm le +Ethernet interface. +.Pp +The +.Nm +is also used for the floppy-disc drive and audio/ISDN hardware on +the Personal DECstation and audio-equipped TURBOchannel Alphas, +where the +.Nm +hardware provides a scatter-gather DMA channel between the 16-bit +device and the 32-bit +.Nm tc +DMA address space. +.Pp +Support for scatter-gather DMA eliminates the need for additional copying. +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 asc 4 , +.Xr bba 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr le 4 , +.Xr mcclock 4 , +.Xr tc 4 , +.Xr zs 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver +first appeared in +.Nx 1.1 , +derived from DECstation boot-time configuration code in +.Bx 4.4 . +.Sh BUGS +The DECstation 5000/200 does not actually have an IOASIC +chip, but for consistency it must be configured as if it did. |
