Minor update to the proto(4) man page:
1. We now support ISA devices 2. DMA support has been added
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.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Marcel Moolenaar
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.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015 Marcel Moolenaar
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 29, 2014
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.Dd July 3, 2015
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.Dt PROTO 4
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.Os
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.\"
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm proto
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.Nd Driver for prototyping and H/W diagnostics
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.Nd Generic prototyping and diagnostics driver
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.\"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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To compile this driver into the kernel,
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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device driver attaches to PCI devices when no other device drivers are
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present and creates device special files for all resources associated
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with the device.
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device driver attaches to PCI or ISA devices when no other device drivers
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are present for those devices and it creates device special files for all
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resources associated with the device.
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The driver itself has no knowledge of the device it attaches to.
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Programs can open these device special files and perform register-level
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reads and writes.
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with
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.Pa pci<d>:<b>:<s>:<f>
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representing the location of the PCI device in the PCI hierarchy.
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A location includes:
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A PCI location includes:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -compact
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.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -compact -offset indent
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.It <d>
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The PCI domain number
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.It <b>
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Every PCI device has a device special file called
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.Pa pcicfg .
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This device special file gives access to the PCI configuration space.
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A device special file called
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.Pa busdma
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is also created.
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This device special file provides the interfaces needed for doing DMA.
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For each valid base address register (BAR), a device special file is created
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that contains the BAR offset and the resource type.
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A resource type can be either
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or
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.Pa mem
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representing I/O port or memory mapped I/O space (resp.)
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.Pp
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ISA devices do not have a location. Instead, they are identified by the
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first I/O port address or first memory mapped I/O address.
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Consequently, all device special files corresponding to an ISA device are
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located under
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.Pa /dev/proto/isa:<addr>
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with
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.Pa addr
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the address in hexadecimal notation.
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For each I/O port or memory mapped I/O address, a device special file is
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created that contains the resource identification used by the kernel and
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the resource type.
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The resource type can be either
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.Pa io
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or
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.Pa mem
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representing I/O port or memory mapped I/O space (resp.)
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When the device has a DMA channel assigned to it, a device special file
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with the name
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.Pa busdma
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is created as well.
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This device special file provides the interfaces needed for doing DMA.
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.Pp
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If the ISA device is not a Plug-and-Play device nor present in the ACPI
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device tree, it must have the appropriate hints so that the kernel can
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reserve the resources for it.
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.\"
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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A single function PCI device in domain 0, on bus 1, in slot 2 and having a
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single memory mapped I/O region will have the following device special files:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -compact
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.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -compact -offset indent
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.It Pa /dev/proto/pci0:1:2:0/10.mem
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.It Pa /dev/proto/pci0:1:2:0/pcicfg
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.El
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.Pp
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A legacy floppy controller will have the following device files:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width XXXXXX -compact -offset indent
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.It Pa /dev/proto/isa:0x3f0/00.io
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.It Pa /dev/proto/isa:0x3f0/01.io
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.It Pa /dev/proto/isa:0x3f0/busdma
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.El
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.\"
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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@ -123,13 +161,12 @@ It is not advisable to use this driver on a production machine.
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The
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.Nm
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driver does not yet support interrupts.
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Since interrupts cannot be handled by the driver itself, they must be converted
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into signals and delivered to the program that has registered for interrupts.
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Since interrupts cannot be handled by the driver itself, they must be
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converted into signals and delivered to the program that has registered
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for interrupts.
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A satisfactory mechanism for keeping the interrupt masked during the
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signal handling is still being worked out.
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.Pp
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In order to test the transmission or reception of data, some means of doing
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direct memory access (DMA) by the device must be possible.
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This too must be under the control of the program.
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The details of how a program can set up and
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initiate DMA still need to be fleshed out.
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.Pp
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Support for non-PCI devices has not been implemented yet.
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DMA support for devices other than busmaster devices is not present yet.
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The details of how a program is to interact with the DMA controller still
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need to be fleshed out.
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