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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.evbarm/iopaau.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.evbarm/iopaau.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4953fc41 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.evbarm/iopaau.4 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: iopaau.4,v 1.6 2014/03/18 18:20:40 riastradh Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Written by Jason R. Thorpe for Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" +.\" 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 for the NetBSD Project by +.\" Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" 4. The name of Wasabi Systems, Inc. may not be used to endorse +.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY WASABI SYSTEMS, INC. ``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 WASABI SYSTEMS, INC +.\" 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 August 2, 2002 +.Dt IOPAAU 4 evbarm +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm iopaau +.Nd Intel I/O Processor Application Accelerator Unit +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd iopxs* at mainbus? +.Cd iopaau* at iopxs? +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The Application Accelerator Unit, or AAU, provides hardware-assisted +support for performing block fills on a region of memory, XOR of +multiple regions of memory +.Pq parity computation , +and parity verification. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the Application Accelerator Units on the following +Intel I/O Processors: +.Bl -bullet +.\" .It +.\" Intel i80312 Companion I/O +.\" .Pq IOP310 +.It +Intel i80321 I/O Processor +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver provides a back-end to the +.Xr dmover 9 +interface, and supports the following +.Xr dmover 9 +functions: +.Bl -tag -width "fill8XX" +.It zero +Zero a region of memory +.It fill8 +Fill a region of memory with an 8-bit value +.It copy +Copy a region of memory +.It xor2 +Perform an XOR of 2 input streams +.It xor3 +Perform an XOR of 3 input streams +.It xor4 +Perform an XOR of 4 input streams +.It xor5 +Perform an XOR of 5 input streams +.It xor6 +Perform an XOR of 6 input streams +.It xor7 +Perform an XOR of 7 input streams +.It xor8 +Perform an XOR of 8 input streams +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dmover 9 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device first appeared in +.Nx 2.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Jason R. Thorpe Aq Mt thorpej@wasabisystems.com +and contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.Sh BUGS +Due to limitations in how scatter-gather is done by the AAU hardware, +a given DMA segment must be the same length for the output stream and +each input stream. The easiest way to achieve this is to ensure that +all streams used in an AAU operation begin at the same offset into a +page. |
