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polling(4) -- device polling support
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``Device polling'' (polling for brevity) refers to a technique to handle devices that does not rely on the latter to generate interrupts when they need attention, but rather lets the CPU poll device... |
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ppbus(4) -- Parallel Port Bus system
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The ppbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various parallel devices, and to utilize different parallel port chipsets. |
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ppc(4) -- Parallel Port Chipset driver
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The ppc driver provides low level support to various parallel port chipsets for the ppbus(4) system. During the probe phase, ppc detects parallel port chipsets and initializes private data according t... |
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ppi(4) -- user-space interface to ppbus parallel 'geek' port
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The ppi driver provides a convenient means for user applications to manipulate the state of the parallel port, enabling easy low-speed I/O operations without the security problems inherent with the us... |
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ppp(4) -- point to point protocol network interface
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The ppp interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the point-to-point protocol. The ppp interface can use various types of compression and has many features over the sl(4) pr... |
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psm(4) -- PS/2 mouse style pointing device driver
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The psm driver provides support for the PS/2 mouse style pointing device. Currently there can be only one psm device node in the system. As the PS/2 mouse port is located at the auxiliary port of the ... |
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pst(4) -- device driver for Promise Supertrak SX6000
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This driver is for the Promise Supertrak SX6000 ATA hardware RAID controller. It supports (in hardware) RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5 and JBOD on up to 6 ATA disk drives, including automatic rebuild and... |
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pt(4) -- SCSI processor type driver
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The pt driver provides support for a SCSI processor type device. These are usually scanners and other devices using the SCSI link as a communication interface with device specific commands embedded in... |
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pty(4) -- pseudo terminal driver
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The pty driver provides support for a device-pair termed a pseudo terminal. A pseudo terminal is a pair of character devices, a master device and a slave device. The slave device provides to a process... |
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puc(4) -- PCI ``Universal'' Communications driver
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This driver acts as a shim to connect PCI serial and parallel ports to the sio(4) and ppc(4) driver. The list of supported devices is in sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c. Support for new cards should be added th... |
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raid(4) -- RAIDframe disk driver
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The raid driver provides RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 (and more!) capabilities to FreeBSD. This document assumes that the reader has at least some familiarity with RAID and RAID concepts. The reader is also as... |
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random(4) -- the entropy device
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The random device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file, but throws away any data written to it, and returns an endless supply of random bytes when read. The only purpose of writin... |
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i386/ray(4) -- Raytheon Raylink/Webgear Aviator PCCard driver
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The ray driver provides support for Raytheon Raylink adapters (commonly available as Webgear Aviator, Webgear Aviator Pro and Raylink PC Card devices.) The core of the Raylink cards is a frequency hop... |
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i386/rdp(4) -- Ethernet driver for RealTek RTL 8002 pocket ethernet
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The rdp device driver supports RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket ethernet adapters, connected to a standard parallel port. These adapters seem to belong to the cheaper choices among pocket ethernet adapte... |
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re(4) -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ethernet adapter driver
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The re driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI ethernet controllers, including the following: +o Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1... |
