EISA(4)

NAME
eisa - Introduction to EISA bus machine-independent drivers and support

SYNOPSIS

Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and EISA-bus interface of your system. Typical EISA buses are either connected directly to the main system bus, or via an PCI-to-EISA bridge. See the intro(4) documentation for your system for details.

INTRODUCTION
NetBSD 1.2 and later versions include machine-independent bus support and drivers for the following EISA bus devices.

SUPPORTED DEVICES
NetBSD includes machine-independent EISA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:

SCSI adaptors:
ahb Adaptec 174x EISA SCSI adaptor.
ahc Adaptec AIC 7770, 274x, and 284x EISA SCSI adaptor boards.
bha BusLogic BT-74x SCSI boards.
uha Ulrastor 24f EISA SCSI adaptor.

Network interfaces:
ep  3Com 3c579 and 3c592 10Mbit Ethernet, and 3c597 10/100Mbit Ethernet interfaces.
fea Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adaptor.

Note that most or all EISA devices also have PCI or ISA equivalents. variants. These are listed in pci(4), isa(4), or isapnp(4), respectively. The manual pages for each individual driver also lists the supported bus variants.

SEE ALSO
intro(4), ahb(4), ahc(4), bha(4), ep(4), fea(4), uha(4).

HISTORY
The eisa introduction appeared in NetBSD 1.3.