Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:34:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r202412 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201001151934.o0FJYesX069228@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brueffer Date: Fri Jan 15 19:34:40 2010 New Revision: 202412 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/202412 Log: Manpage for the siba(4) Sonic Inc. Silicon Backplane driver. Submitted by: weongyo Added: head/share/man/man4/siba.4 (contents, props changed) Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/Makefile Fri Jan 15 19:12:34 2010 (r202411) +++ head/share/man/man4/Makefile Fri Jan 15 19:34:40 2010 (r202412) @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ ses.4 \ sf.4 \ si.4 \ + siba.4 \ sio.4 \ siis.4 \ sis.4 \ Added: head/share/man/man4/siba.4 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/share/man/man4/siba.4 Fri Jan 15 19:34:40 2010 (r202412) @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Weongyo Jeong +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 8, 2010 +.Dt SIBA 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm siba +.Nd Sonic Inc. Silicon Backplane driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device siba" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, +place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +siba_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports the Sonic Inc. Silicon Backplane, the interblock +communications architecture that can be found in most Broadcom +wireless NICs. +.Pp +A bus connects all of the Silicon Backplane's functional blocks. +These functional blocks, known as cores, use the Open Core Protocol +(OCP) interface to communicate with agents attached to the Silicon +Backplane. +.Pp +Each NIC uses a chip from the same chip family. +Each member of the family contains a different set of cores, but +shares basic architectural features such as address space definition, +interrupt and error architecture, and backplane register definitions. +.Pp +Each core can have an initiator agent that passes read and write +requests onto the system backplane and a target agent that returns +responses to those requests. +Not all cores contain both an initiator and a target agent. +Initiator agents are present in cores that contain +host interfaces (PCI, PCMCIA), embedded processors (MIPS), +or DMA processors associated with communications cores. +.Pp +All cores other than PCMCIA have a target agent. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bwn 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 8.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bruce M. Simpson +.Aq bms@FreeBSD.org +and +.An Weongyo Jeong +.Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org . +.Sh CAVEATS +Host mode is not supported at this moment.
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