hil(4)

hil4

Introduction to hp-hil support

Usage

hil* at gsc? irq 1 (hppa)

hilkbd* at hil? hilms* at hil? hilid* at hil?

Overview

The hil interface provides access to the “Human Interface Loop” controller found on many HP workstations.

It provides generic HIL management and interfaces for child devices, such as keyboards, button boxes, mice, graphics tablet, and ID modules.

OpenBSD provides support for the following devices:

hilid(4)

HIL ID module device

hilkbd(4)

HIL keyboard device

hilms(4)

HIL mouse and graphics tablet device

Releases

49 releases since OpenBSD 3.3; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.3
  2. 3.4–3.6
  3. 3.7–3.9
  4. 4.0–4.1
  5. 4.2–5.5
  6. 5.6–8.0

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