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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 ispell. Some mandoc cleanups.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/1c328a53a8f7
branches: trunk
changeset: 534777:1c328a53a8f7
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Fri Aug 02 22:20:59 2002 +0000
description:
ispell. Some mandoc cleanups.
diffstat:
share/man/man4/dmoverio.4 | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diffs (92 lines):
diff -r 45f7c6d0a1eb -r 1c328a53a8f7 share/man/man4/dmoverio.4
--- a/share/man/man4/dmoverio.4 Fri Aug 02 21:29:46 2002 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/dmoverio.4 Fri Aug 02 22:20:59 2002 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: dmoverio.4,v 1.1 2002/08/02 00:43:13 thorpej Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: dmoverio.4,v 1.2 2002/08/02 22:20:59 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Wasabi Systems, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd Aug 1, 2002
+.Dd August 1, 2002
.Dt DMOVERIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -45,26 +45,26 @@
.Fd #include \*[Lt]dev/dmover/dmover_io.h\*[Gt]
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm dmoverio
-pesudo-device driver provides an interface to hardware-assisted
+.Nm
+pseudo-device driver provides an interface to hardware-assisted
data movers, which the kernel supports using the
.Xr dmover 9
facility. This can be used to copy data from one location in
memory to another, clear a region of memory, fill a region of memory
-with a patter, and perform simple operations on multiple regions of
+with a pattern, and perform simple operations on multiple regions of
memory, such as an XOR, without intervention by the CPU.
.Pp
A
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
function always has one output region. A function may have zero or more
input regions, or may use an immediate value as an input. For functions
-which use input regions, the lenghts of each input region and the output
+which use input regions, the lengths of each input region and the output
region must be the same. All
-.Nm dmover
+.Nm
functions with the same name will have the same number of and type inputs.
.Pp
To use
-.Nm dmoverio ,
+.Nm "" ,
the client must first create a session. This is achieved by performing
the following steps:
.Bl -bullet
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
device.
.It
Select the
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
function using the DMIO_SETFUNC ioctl, which takes the following
argument:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -163,12 +163,12 @@
.El
.Pp
When a client is finished using a
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
session, the session is destroyed by closing the session handle using
.Xr close 2 .
-.Ss EXAMPLE USAGE
+.Sh EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a client using
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
to zero-fill a region of memory. In this example, the application would
be able to perform other work while the hardware-assisted data mover clears
the specified block of memory.
@@ -231,12 +231,12 @@
.Xr dmover 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
device first appeared in
.Nx 2.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
-.Nm dmoverio
+.Nm
device was designed and implemented by
.An Jason R. Thorpe
.Aq thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost
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