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NAME

adb — Apple Desktop Bus driver

SYNOPSIS

adb0 at obio?
akbd* at adb?
ams* at adb?

DESCRIPTION

The Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) is the single-master, multiple-slave, low-speed serial bus interface used by Macintosh computers to connect input devices such as keyboards, mice, trackballs, and graphics tablets to the machine.

OpenBSD provides support for the following devices:

SEE ALSO

intro(4)

HISTORY

The adb interface first appeared in NetBSD 0.9.

AUTHORS

Bradley A. Grantham wrote the original adb driver, including the MRG support. The hardware direct interface was written by John P. Wittkowski. The PowerManager interface was written by Takashi Hamada.

BUGS

• Not every class of ADB hardware is supported yet.
• The talk command is currently unimplemented.
• The listen command is not implemented yet.