freebsd man page for fdtbus

Query: fdtbus

OS: freebsd

Section: 4

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FDTBUS(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 FDTBUS(4)

NAME
fdtbus -- Flattened Device Tree bus driver
SYNOPSIS
options FDT
DESCRIPTION
The fdtbus abstract bus driver is the primary connection and translation layer between fdt(4) hardware resources description and FreeBSD native newbus device drivers framework. For an embedded system fdtbus represents peripherals typically found on a highly integrated chip (system-on-chip). The fdtbus driver provides generic, common infrastructure for all fdt(4) oriented device drivers, and its main responsibilities are the fol- lowing: o Creating newbus children that reflect fdt(4) nodes in the flattened device tree. o Managing SYS_RES_IRQ resources. o Managing SYS_RES_MEMORY, SYS_RES_IOPORT resources.
SEE ALSO
fdt(4), openfirm(4), simplebus(4)
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1275: IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware: Core Requirements and Practices (Open Firmware). Power.org Standard for Embedded Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR).
HISTORY
The fdtbus support first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0.
AUTHORS
The fdtbus support was developed by Semihalf under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. This manual page was written by Rafal Jaworowski.
BSD
July 12, 2010 BSD
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fdt(4) - freebsd
iicbus(4) - freebsd
viapm(4) - freebsd
viapm(4) - netbsd
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