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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/man4.vax/np.4 | |
| parent | a59214f344567c037d5776879bcfc5fcc1d4d5f6 (diff) | |
feat: Added NetBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/np.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/np.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2722a75b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/np.4 @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: np.4,v 1.17 2017/08/01 11:11:17 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. 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. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``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 REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS 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. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)np.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd February 17, 2017 +.Dt NP 4 vax +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm np +.Nd Interlan Np100 10 Mb/s Ethernet interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "np0 at uba0 csr 166000 vector npintr" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +NOTE: This driver has not been ported from +.Bx 4.4 +yet. +.Pp +The +.Nm np +device provides access to an Interlan Np100 Ethernet interface +for control functions. +.Pp +This interface is unusual in that it requires loading firmware +into the controller before it may be used as a network link-level interface. +This is accomplished by opening a character special device, +and writing data to it. +It is also possible to do post-mortem debugging of firmware failures +by reading the local memory of the device. +.\" .Pp +.\" A program to load the image is provided in +.\" .Pa /usr/src/new/np100 . +.\" The sequence of commands would be: +.\" .Bd -literal -offset indent +.\" # ./npload np.image [/dev/np00] +.\" # sleep 10 +.\" # ifconfig ix0 ... +.\" .Ed +.Pp +Multiple control processes are allowed by opening separate +minor devices; secondary interfaces are specified by shifting +the interface number by 4 bits. +.Pp +The device also responds to commands passed through the driver +by the following +.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s : +.Bl -tag -width NPNETBOOT +.It Dv NPRESET +kills off all active network processes. +.It Dv NPSTART +begins execution of the board at the specified address (usually +.Li 0x400 ) . +.It Dv NPNETBOOT +downloads the image from a server on the network. +[Contact +.Tn MICOM-INTERLAN +for details.] +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It np%d: Bad Maintenance command: %x! +An invalid +.Xr ioctl 2 +was passed to the np driver. +.It np%d: Panic NP100 bad buffer chain. +An error occurred in an read or write operation causing it to +run out of buffers before it finished the operation. +This indicates a kernel failure rather than a device failure. +.It NP100 unit %d not found! +A failure occurred during initialization, such that the UNIBUS +address expected for the board was found to be bad. +Probably indicates hardware problems with the board, as do the following: +.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact +NP100 Unit %d timed out! +NP100 Unit %d Failed diagnostics! +Status from CSR0: %x. +.Ed +.It "Panic from NP100 unit %d!" +.It "Panic Message: %s." +An occurrence on the board was deemed serious enough +to have the VAX print it out. +.It NP100 unit #%d available! +The board was successfully loaded and started. +.It np%d: Bad Req: %x. +The board made a maintenance request to the VAX that it did not +understand. +.It np%d: No more room on Command Queue! +The np driver allowed an internal resource to be exhausted. +This should never happen. +.El +There are 110 other diagnostic messages that can be enabled +by setting bits in a debugging mask. +Consult the driver for details. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr inet 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr vax/ix 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver appeared in +.Bx 4.3 . |
