NAME
neptune —
Neptune-X ISA bridge
driver
SYNOPSIS
neptune0 at intio0 addr 0xece000 irq 239
ne0 at neptune? addr 0x300
DESCRIPTION
The Neptune-X is a Ethernet interface card initially designed by Hirofumi
Shimada, which uses popular NE2000 or its clone with its own x68k-proprietary
bus to ISA bus bridge.
The
NetBSD neptune driver takes charge
of the ISA bridge part of the Neptune-X. It is implemented as a more generic
`bus' with its own
bus_space(9) interface,
and is intended to be used with
ne(4) driver.
SEE ALSO
isa(4),
ne(4),
x68k/intro(4),
bus_space(9)
HISTORY
The
neptune device appeared in
NetBSD
1.4.
BUGS
neptune itself is always detected when it is specified in the
kernel config file. This is because the Neptune-X ISA bridge is transparent to
software. The attached device is detected appropriately.