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37 baseboard IO control ASIC for DEC TURBOchannel systems
39 .Cd "ioasic0 at tc? slot ? offset ?"
43 driver provides support for the DEC proprietary IOCTL ASIC found on
44 all DEC TURBOchannel machines with MIPS (DECstation 5000 series,
45 excluding the 5000/200) and Alpha (3000-series) processors. On these
46 machines (including the 5000/200), all baseboard devices should be
47 configured as children of the
53 provides hardware DMA channels and interrupt support for several
54 baseboard devices, including one
56 SCSI device with a scatter/gather DMA channel, an mc146818-compatible
58 an Am7930 audio device
62 two-port serial devices, and a AMD 7990 LANCE
68 is also used for the floppy-disc drive and audio/ISDN hardware on
69 the Personal DECstation and audio-equipped TURBOchannel Alphas,
72 hardware provides a scatter-gather DMA channel between the 16-bit
77 Support for scatter-gather DMA eliminates the need for additional copying.
80 SCSI adaptor attached to an
82 will give slightly better performance than its
99 derived from DECstation boot-time configuration code in
102 The DECstation 5000/200 does not actually have an IOASIC
103 chip, but for consistency it must be configured as if it did.