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NAME
 ofisa — introduction to machine-independent Open Firmware ISA bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
 ofisa* at mainbus0
XX*    at ofisa?
DESCRIPTION
 NetBSD includes a machine-independent ISA bus subsystem and several machine-independent ISA device drivers. The ofisa bus uses Open Firmware to determine how to attach devices.
HARDWARE
 NetBSD includes machine-independent Open Firmware ISA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
Disk and tape controllers
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wdc
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Standard Western Digital type hard drive controllers: MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE/ATAPI.
 
Serial and parallel interfaces
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com
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NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial ports.
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lpt
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Standard ISA parallel port interface.
 
Network interfaces
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cs
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Cirrus Logic Crystal CS8900 Ethernet interfaces.
 
Sound cards and MIDI interfaces
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ess
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ESS Technology AudioDrive 1788-, 1888-, 1887-, and 888-based sound cards.
 
Miscellaneous devices
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joy
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Game (joystick) adapters.
 
 
HISTORY
 The Open Firmware ISA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.4.