OFISA(4)

NAME
ofisa - introduction to machine-independent Open Firmware ISA bus support and drivers

SYNOPSIS
ofisa* at mainbus0
XX* at ofisa?

DESCRIPTION
NetBSD includes a machine-independent ISA bus subsystem and several machine-independent ISA device drivers. The ofisa bus uses Open Firmware to determine how to attach devices.

HARDWARE
NetBSD includes machine-independent Open Firmware ISA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:

  Disk and tape controllers

wdc Standard Western Digital type hard drive controllers: MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE/ATAPI.

  Serial and parallel interfaces

com NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial ports.

lpt Standard ISA parallel port interface.

  Network interfaces

cs  Cirrus Logic Crystal CS8900 Ethernet interfaces.

  Sound cards and MIDI interfaces

ess ESS Technology AudioDrive 1788-, 1888-, 1887-, and 888-based sound cards.

  Miscellaneous devices

joy Game (joystick) adapters.

SEE ALSO
com(4), cs(4), ess(4), intro(4), isa(4), joy(4), lpt(4), wdc(4)

HISTORY
The Open Firmware ISA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.4.