SBUS(4)

NAME
SBus - introduction to machine-independent SBus bus support and drivers

SYNOPSIS
sbus* at mainbus?
sbus* at iommu?
sbus* at xbox?

These
SBus attachments are specific to the NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/sparc64 ports.

DESCRIPTION
SBus is a I/O interconnect bus mostly found in SPARC workstations and small to medium server class systems. It supports both on-board peripherals and extension boards. The SBus specifications define the bus protocol as well as the electrical and mechanical properties of the extension slots.

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

  SCSI interfaces

esp NCR53c94 and compatible SCSI interfaces.

isp Qlogic SCSI interfaces.

  Network interfaces

le  Lance 7990 series Ethernet interfaces.

hme “Happy Meal” Ethernet interfaces.

en  Midway-based Efficient Networks Inc. and Adaptec ATM interfaces.

be  “Big Mac” Ethernet board.

qe  Quad Ethernet Controller board.

  Bridges

xbox
    an Sbus expansion box.

  Graphics devices

bwtwo
    framebuffer device.

cgthree
    framebuffer device.

cgsix
    framebuffer device.

pnozz
    framebuffer device.

tcx framebuffer device.

zx  framebuffer device.

  Audio devices

audiocs
    CS4231 codec.

  Serial interfaces

magma
    Magma Serial/Parallel combo device.

  Floppy interfaces

fdc Floppy disk controller

SEE ALSO
audiocs(4), be(4), bwtwo(4), cgsix(4), cgthree(4), en(4), esp(4), fdc(4), hme(4), intro(4), isp(4), le(4), magma(4), pnozz(4), qe(4), tcx(4), xbox(4), zx(4)

HISTORY
The machine-independent SBus subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.3.