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+.\" $NetBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.5 2017/09/12 14:48:44 wiz Exp $
+.\"
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+.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.