PODULEBUS(4)

NAME
podulebus - Acorn Expansion Card bus driver

SYNOPSIS
podulebus0 at ioc0 bank 4 (NetBSD/acorn26)
podulebus0 at root (NetBSD/acorn32)

DESCRIPTION
The podulebus driver handles the expansion-card interface in Archimedes machines and their successors. This includes conventional expansion cards, mini expansion cards (as introduced in the A3000), network expansion cards (as introduced in the A3020), DEBI expansion cards (as introduced in the Risc PC), and Mk II network cards (also introduced in the Risc PC). Drivers for individual cards attach as children of the podulebus device.

NetBSD includes several machine-independent expansion card device drivers. There are also some device drivers which are specific to NetBSD/acorn26 or NetBSD/acorn32.

HARDWARE
The following devices are supported by NetBSD.

  SCSI interfaces

asc Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards (NetBSD/acorn32).

cosc
    MCS Connect32 SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

csa Cumana 8-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

csc Cumana 16-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

hcsc
    HCCS 8-bit SCSI interface.

oak Oak SCSI interface.

ptsc
    Powertec SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

sec Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards.

  Disk controllers

dtide
    D.T. Software IDE controller.

hcide
    HCCS IDE controller.

icside
    ICS IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).

rapide
    Yellowstone Educational Solutions RapIDE IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).

simide
    Simtec IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32).

  Network interfaces

ea  Atomwide A-10xx and Acorn AEH54 Ethernet cards (Ether3).

eb  Atomwide and ANT network-slot and Acorn AEH61 Ethernet cards (EtherB).

eh  i-cubed EtherLan 100-, 200- and 500-series, and Acorn AEH75, AEH77, and AEH79 Ethernet cards (EtherH) (NetBSD/acorn26).

ei  Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1).

ie  Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1) (NetBSD/acorn32).

ne  Various vaguely NE2000-compatible Ethernet cards (NetBSD/acorn32).

  Serial interfaces

amps
    Atomwide multi-port serial interface (NetBSD/acorn32).

SEE ALSO
acorn26/eh(4), acorn32/asc(4), acorn32/cosc(4), acorn32/csc(4), acorn32/ie(4), acorn32/ptsc(4), dtide(4), ea(4), eb(4), ei(4), hcide(4), ne(4), oak(4), sec(4)

BUGS
Too few drivers are shared between NetBSD/acorn26 and NetBSD/acorn32.