asp(4)

asp4

Core bus controller as present on older hp 9000/700 machines

Usage

asp0 at mainbus? irq 28 gsc* at asp?

Overview

The supported Core bus controllers are those present on older PA-RISC workstations, and include:

  • Core bus controller

  • System clock

  • Interrupt controller

  • DMA controller

  • Real-time clock Interface

  • RAM and EEPROM controllers

The irq level supplied is hardwired to the CPU pin, so changing the value would not produce any noticeable results (except lost interrupts for the whole I/O subsystem).

Machines

An incomplete list of machines that use the ASP bus controller:

  • 705, 710

  • 715/{33,50,75}

  • 725/{50,75}

  • 720, 730, 750

  • 735/*

  • 745i/{50,75}

  • 747i/{50,75}

  • 755/*

History

The asp driver appeared in OpenBSD 2.4.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.