NAME
obio —
introduction to Macintosh On-Board IO
bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
obio0 at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
Theobio interface serves as an abstraction used by the
autoconfiguration system to help find and attach devices (e.g. the Ethernet or
disk controllers) connected to the Macintosh onboard I/O bus.
HARDWARE
NetBSD includes machine-dependent On-Board drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
SCSI interfaces
- esp
- NCR 53C9x SCSI interfaces.
- mesh
- Apple Macintosh Enhanced SCSI Hardware SCSI interfaces.
Disk and tape controllers
- wdc
- Standard IDE/ATAPI type hard drive controllers.
- mediabay
- Standard IDE/ATAPI type CD-ROM drive controllers in PowerBooks.
Network interfaces
- bm
- Apple BMac ethernet interface.
- mc
- Apple MACE ethernet interface.
- gem
- GMAC ethernet interface.
- wi
- WaveLAN/IEEE and PRISM-II 802.11 wireless interfaces.
Serial interfaces
- zsc
- Zilog 8530 serial communications interfaces.
Audio devices
- awacs
- Apple's ‘audio waveform amplifier and converter for sound’ audio device found on most macppc models.
Miscellaneous devices
- adb
- Apple Desktop Bus for keyboards, mice, and other input devices.
- nvram
- Placeholder device for the persistent system settings.
SEE ALSO
adb(4), esp(4), gem(4), macppc/autoconf(4), macppc/awacs(4), macppc/bm(4), macppc/intro(4), macppc/mesh(4), mc(4), wdc(4), wi(4), zsc(4)
HISTORY
obio first appeared in
NetBSD 1.2.