intro(7)intro(7)NAMEintro - Introduction to special files
DESCRIPTION
Section 7 describes the special files, related driver functions, and
networking support available in the system. In this section of the ref‐
erence pages, the SYNOPSIS heading of each configurable device gives a
sample specification for use in constructing a system description for
the config program. The DIAGNOSTICS heading lists messages that may
appear on the console and in the system error log file
/usr/adm/syserr/syserr.hostname due to errors in device operation.
Software support for configurable devices comes in two forms. A hard‐
ware device may be supported with a character or block device driver
or, if used within the networking subsystem, may be supported with a
network interface driver.
There are some devices that have fixed input/output space CSR addresses
and interrupt vector addresses. There are no address switches or
jumpers that need to be set up by the customer or Field Service.
Some reference pages in this section may contain suffixes to allow
their files to exist with those of other reference pages having the
same base name and section number. When used, suffixes are made up of
one to four letters. See the man(1) reference page for more informa‐
tion on suffixes.
FILES
/dev/*
SEE ALSO
Commands: MAKEDEV(8)intro(7)