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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/Makefile b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67434962 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +MAN = $(wildcard *.4) + +include ../../../mandoc.mk + diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/intro.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/intro.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..364f193b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/intro.4 @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.7 2017/02/18 22:39:01 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation +.\" by Tim Rightnour +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. 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 FOUNDATION 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. +.\" +.Dd February 17, 2017 +.Dt INTRO 4 prep +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm intro +.Nd introduction to prep special files and hardware support +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This section describes the special files, related driver functions, +and networking support available in the system. +In this part of the manual, the +.Tn SYNOPSIS +section of each configurable device gives a sample specification +for use in constructing a system description for the +.Xr config 1 +program. +The +.Tn DIAGNOSTICS +section lists messages which may appear on the console +and/or in the system error log +.Pa /var/log/messages +due to errors in device operation; +see +.Xr syslogd 8 +for more information. +.Pp +This section contains both devices +which may be configured into the system +and network related information. +The networking support is introduced in +.Xr netintro 4 . +.Sh PMPPC DEVICE SUPPORT +This section describes the hardware supported on the +.Tn PowerPC Reference Platform +machines. +Software support for these devices comes in two forms. +A hardware device may be supported with a character or block +.Em device driver , +or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a +.Em network interface driver . +Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file +system of a special type; see +.Xr mknod 8 . +Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess +communication facilities provided by the system; see +.Xr socket 2 . +.Pp +A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time +and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled +into the system. +When the resultant system is booted, the +autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device +and, if found, enable the software support for it. +If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration +time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. +To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, +the system will have to be rebooted. +.Pp +The autoconfiguration system is described in +.Xr autoconf 4 . +A list of the supported devices is given below. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr config 1 , +.Xr autoconf 4 , +.Xr pnpbus 4 , +.Xr prep/nvram 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Tn prep +.Nm intro +man page first appeared in +.Nx 4.0 . +.Sh LIST OF DEVICES +The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of +the system. +Devices are indicated by their functional interface. +Not all supported devices are listed. +.Pp +The pnpbus is a pseudo-bus which is a configuration interface for certain +devices on PReP machines. +These devices are defined in the PReP +residual data with configuration information, similar to +.Xr isapnp 4 . +The underlying bus is generally ISA. +.Pp +ISA devices are supported through the +.Xr isa 4 +bus and associated devices. +.Pp +PCI devices are supported through the +.Xr pci 4 +bus and associated devices. +.Pp +USB devices are supported through the +.Xr usb 4 +bus and associated devices. +.Pp +Additionally, the following specific devices are supported: +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxxxx" -compact -offset indent +.It Em com +serial ports +.It Em nvram +NVRAM chip +.It Em wdc +ISA IDE controller +.It Em we +Western Digital/SMC WD80x3 ethernet driver +.It Em mcclock +mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock +.It Em mkclock +Mostek MK48T18 time-of-day chip +.El diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/nvram.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/nvram.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0de73a3e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.prep/nvram.4 @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: nvram.4,v 1.5 2009/05/27 19:28:42 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation +.\" by Tim Rightnour +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. 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 FOUNDATION 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. +.\" +.Dd March 1, 2007 +.Dt NVRAM 4 prep +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm nvram +.Nd PReP nvram interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In machine/nvram.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The file +.Nm /dev/nvram +is an interface to the PReP NVRAM, including the Global Environment Area. +This interface is highly stylized; +ioctls are used for all operations. +These ioctls refer to individual variables in the +Global Environment Area and their values. +.Pp +The calls that take and/or return a variable +use a pointer to an +.Li int +variable for this purpose; +others use a pointer to an +.Li struct pnviocdesc +descriptor, +which contains a variable and two counted strings. +The first string comprises the fields +.Li pnv_namelen +(an +.Li int ) +and +.Li pnv_name +(a +.Li "char *" ) , +giving the name of a field. +The second string comprises the fields +.Li pnv_buflen +and +.Li pnv_buf , +used analogously. +These two counted strings work in a +.Dq value-result +fashion. +At entry to the ioctl, +the counts are expected to reflect the buffer size; +on return, +the counts are updated to reflect the buffer contents. +.Pp +The following ioctls are supported: +.Bl -tag -width PNVIOCGETNEXTNAME +.It PNVIOCGETNEXTNAME +Takes a variable name and returns the name of the following variable. +If a +.Dv NULL +is passed as the variable name, the first variable name +will be returned. +If the last variable is given as an argument, the ioctl will return +.Er EINVAL . +.It Dv PNVIOCGET +Fills in the value of the named property for the given variable. +If no such property is associated with that variable, +the value length is set to \-1. +If the named property exists but has no value, +the value length is set to 0. +.It Dv PNVIOCSET +Writes the given value under the given name. +.It Dv PNVIOCGETNUMGE +Returns the number of variables in the Global Environment Area. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Pa /dev/nvram +.Sh ERRORS +The following may result in rejection of an operation: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The given variable name does not exist; or +the buffer set up to retrieve values from the nvram was not large enough +to hold the result. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ioctl 2 +.Pp +.Pa PowerPC Reference Platform Specification Version 1.1, Section 5.5 +.Sh BUGS +Due to limitations within the +.Nm +itself, these functions run at elevated priority +and may adversely affect system performance. +.Pp +.Dv PNVIOCSET +is not currently supported, making the +.Nm +driver read-only at this time. |
