PODULEBUS(4)

💖 PODULEBUS(4) 💖 — Acorn Expansion Card bus driver, straight from the Kernel Interfaces Manual

✨ NAME ✨

podulebus — the Acorn Expansion Card bus driver. That's the name, that's the vibe, and honestly? iconic. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Okay bestie, here's the exact setup energy:

podulebus0 at root
(NetBSD/acorn32)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so 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. It's giving whole little card family tree, and we love that for them. 🌳💅

NetBSD includes several machine-independent expansion card device drivers. There are also some device drivers which are specific to NetBSD/acorn32. So yeah, both the universal besties and the acorn32-specific besties are in the chat. 🫶

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🔥 HARDWARE 🔥

The following devices are supported by NetBSD. Roster time, bestie — let's get into it: 🎀

💅 SCSI interfaces 💅

• asc — Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards (NetBSD/acorn32). slay.
• cosc — MCS Connect32 SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32). connect-core.
• csa — Cumana 8-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32). 8-bit but make it serve.
• csc — Cumana 16-bit SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32). 16-bit upgrade arc.
• hcsc — HCCS 8-bit SCSI interface. short, sweet, SCSI.
• oak — Oak SCSI interface. tree name, tech vibe.
• ptsc — Powertec SCSI interface (NetBSD/acorn32). powertec said present.
• sec — Acorn AKA30, AKA31, and AKA32 SCSI expansion cards. the Acorn trio again, no cap.

🍓 Disk controllers 🍓

• dtide — D.T. Software IDE controller. software IDE realness.
• hcide — HCCS IDE controller. HCCS in the house.
• icside — ICS IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32). ICS, periodt.
• rapide — Yellowstone Educational Solutions RapIDE IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32). RapIDE is literally right there in the name.
• simide — Simtec IDE controller (NetBSD/acorn32). Simtec said disk time.

🌈 Network interfaces 🌈

• ea — Atomwide A-10xx and Acorn AEH54 Ethernet cards (Ether3). Ether3 energy.
• eb — Atomwide and ANT network-slot and Acorn AEH61 Ethernet cards (EtherB). EtherB bestie.
• ei — Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1). Ether1, the origin story.
• ie — Acorn AKA25 Ethernet card (Ether1) (NetBSD/acorn32). same card, acorn32 flavor.
• ne — Various vaguely NE2000-compatible Ethernet cards (NetBSD/acorn32). vaguely compatible is a whole mood, ngl.

🧚 Serial interfaces 🧚

• amps — Atomwide multi-port serial interface (NetBSD/acorn32). multi-port? we love options.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

The official posse, iykyk:

• 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)

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