fhc(4)

fhc4

Sparc64 firehose controller

Usage

fhc* at central? fhc* at mainbus0

Overview

The fhc device provides support for the FireHose controllers found on Sunfire, Starfire, and Wildfire UltraSPARC systems. These devices are used for board level functions on these systems. This device also controls an LED for each slot. This LED can be made to blink based on the load average on most systems by setting the sysctl(2) variable machdep.led_blink to a non-zero value.

Hardware

OpenBSD includes the following fhc drivers, sorted by driver name:

clkbrd(4)

SPARC64 Clock Board

clock(4)

real-time clock

environ(4)

SPARC64 temperature sensor

zs(4)

Zilog 8530 (ZSCC) serial communications driver

History

OpenBSD support for the fhc first appeared in OpenBSD 3.7.

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