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date:      Wed May 09 22:31:19 2001 +0000

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Pull up revisions 1.1-1.3 (new, requested by he):
  Add a few manual pages specific to NetBSD/macppc.

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+.\"    $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.3.2.2 2001/05/09 22:31:19 he Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by Tsubai Masanari and Thomas Klausner.
+.\"
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+.Dd April 4, 2001
+.Dt INTRO 4 macppc
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm intro
+.Nd introduction to macppc 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 8
+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 MACPPC DEVICE SUPPORT
+This section describes the hardware supported on the
+.Tn Power Macintosh .
+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 HISTORY
+The
+.Tn macppc
+.Nm intro
+man page first appeared in
+.Nx 1.5.1 ,
+based on the
+.Nx Ns /mac68k
+.Xr intro 4 .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr intro 4 ,
+.Xr autoconf 4 ,
+.Xr awacs 4 ,
+.Xr config 8
+.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
+PCMCIA devices are supported through the
+.Xr pcmcia 4
+bus and associated devices.
+.Pp
+Cardbus devices are supported through the
+.Xr cardbus 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 adb
+Apple Desktop Bus event interface.
+.It Em awacs
+Audio Waveform Amplifier and Converter \(em Apple Sound Chip
+(supported systems include 603 and 604 based
+machines, and
+.Tn Open Firmware 3
+based machines).
+.It Em bm
+bmac ethernet (at least in the G3 series).
+.It Em esp
+.Tn NCR
+53C9x built-in SCSI interface.
+.It Em gmac
+gmac ethernet.
+.It Em kmem
+kernel virtual memory.
+.It Em mc
+MACE ethernet.
+.It Em mem
+physical memory.
+.It Em mesh
+MESH built-in SCSI interface (most Old World machines up to the 1999
+series of G3 PowerBooks).
+.It Em nvram
+NVRAM access.
+.It Em ofb
+PCI based frame buffer with
+.Tn Open Firmware
+support.
+.It Em openfirm
+.Tn Open Firmware
+access.
+.It Em wdc
+Standard on-board IDE controller.
+.It Em zsc
+.Tn Zilog
+Z8530 built-in serial interface.
+.El