NAME
obio —
introduction to Macintosh
On-Board IO bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
obio0 at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
The
obio 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. May not work on
several G4 and iBook 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),
mediabay(4),
wdc(4),
wi(4),
zsc(4)
HISTORY
obio first appeared in
NetBSD
1.2.