astro(4)

astro4

Astro memory and i/o controller

Usage

astro* at mainbus? elroy* at astro?

Overview

The astro driver provides support for the Astro memory and I/O controller used on systems with PA-8500 and later 64-bit CPUs. It functions as a bridge from the Runway bus to up to 8 I/O ropes that connect to Elroy chips. Astro contains an IOMMU and provides support for cache coherent DMA.

History

The astro driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.2.

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