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+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/intro.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.19 2001/10/04 22:03:46 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.20 2001/10/05 14:45:54 mpech Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.5 1998/02/06 06:07:00 perry Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Jonathan Stone.
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ The networking support is introduced in
.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT
This section describes the hardware supported on the SPARC
platform.
-Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware
-device may be supported with a character or block
+Software support for these devices comes in two forms.
+A hardware device may be supported with a character or block
.Em device driver ,
or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
.Em network interface driver .
@@ -79,9 +79,10 @@ communication facilities provided by the system; see
.Pp
A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time
and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled
-into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the
-autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device
-and, if found, enable the software support for it.
+into the system.
+When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities
+in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software
+support for it.
If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration
time it is not accessible at any time afterwards.
To enable a device which did not autoconfigure,
@@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ The autoconfiguration system is described in
A list of the supported devices is given below.
.Sh LIST OF DEVICES
The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
-the system. Pseudo-devices are not listed.
+the system.
+Pseudo-devices are not listed.
Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
Not all supported devices are listed.
.Pp