NAME
wax —
GSC bus controller and I/O
subsystem
SYNOPSIS
wax* at mainbus0
wax* at phantomas?
gsc* at wax?
DESCRIPTION
Thewax GSC bus controller is a version of
hppa/lasi(4) with limited functionality and no additional devices on
the crystal. It is mainly used as a GSC bus controller for additional onboard
devices (e.g. 2nd RS232 or HIL) and sometimes add-on cards (such as a TR-9000
card for the HP 9000/712 models).
MACHINES
An incomplete list of machines that use the
wax bus controller:
- 712/* add-on cards
- 715/{64/80/100}[XC]
- 725/100
- 743/*
- 744/*
- 748[i]
- B132L[+], B160L, B180L+
- C100, C110, C132L, C160L, C160, C180, C200, C240, C360
- J200, J210[XC], J280, J282, J2240
- all D-Class machines
SEE ALSO
hppa/asp(4), hppa/gsc(4), hppa/intro(4), hppa/io(4), hppa/lasi(4), hppa/phantomas(4)
Precision I/O Architecture Reference Specification, Hewlett-Packard.
712 I/O Subsystem ERS, Revision 1.1, Dwg No. A-A2263-66510-31, Hewlett-Packard, 12 February 1993.
Volume 46 Number 2, Hewlett-Packard Journal, April 1995.
HISTORY
The wax driver appeared in
OpenBSD 3.4. It was ported to
NetBSD 1.6 by Matthew Fredette.