hardware revision 1.1 
1NetBSD/alpha _VER runs on the following DEC Alpha platforms:
2
3     DEC 3000/500-family systems 
4     DEC 3000/300-family systems 
5     Digital AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, and 400 systems 
6     Digital AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems 
7     Digital AXPpci systems (including UDB and Multia) 
8     EB64+-family systems (including Digital EB64+ and third-party
9	AlphaPC 64 systems) 
10     EB164-family systems (including Digital EB164 and third-party
11	AlphaPC 164 systems) 
12     Digital AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems 
13
14If your system is not listed here, it is not supported in this release,
15but may be supported in more current versions of NetBSD. Check the
16alpha port web pages at <http://www.netbsd.org/> for the most recent
17information on this, or ask on the alpha mailing list,
18<port-alpha@netbsd.org>.
19
20NetBSD/alpha requires the Digital Unix PALcode, which basically means
21that you need to have the SRM console installed on your machine. This
22console can be distinguished from the ARC console (which is used to
23boot Windows NT) by the fact that it has a command line interface,
24rather than a menu-driven interface.
25
26A basic system will fit on a 200 MB disk (including swap) without too
27much difficulty, but you will probably want at least 500 MB of disk
28to have any level of comfort. You will also need at least 32 MB of
29RAM, and you will probably want more than that if you're running X.
30
31We support add-in devices on the PCI, ISA, EISA and TurboChannel buses.
32Because NetBSD has an extremely machine-independent device driver
33system, many device drivers are the same as used in other ports that
34use the same bus. For example, the de network card driver is shared
35by the i386 and Alpha ports. Some drivers on inspection appear as if
36they will work on the alpha but have not been tested because that
37hardware was not available to NetBSD testers; these are marked as
38`UNTESTED' below. If you have one of these devices, and it does work,
39please get in touch with <port-alpha-maintainer@netbsd.org> and let
40us know that it works. If it doesn't work, do the same thing and we
41can probably fix it pretty easily.
42
43Supported devices by bus type are:
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45PCI Bus
46
47    Graphics Adapters
48	VGA-compatible video (pcivga) 
49	ZLXp-E1 video (DECchip 21030-based video, tga, NOTE: ZLXp-E2
50	    and ZLXp-E3 boards are not currently supported)) 
51
52    Network Cards
53	DECchip 21x40-family 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (de) 
54	DEC DEFPA FDDI (fpa) 
55	PCI LANCE Ethernet (le, UNTESTED) 
56	Efficient Networks ENI-155p ATM (en, UNTESTED) 
57	3Com 3c59x and 3c90x (except 3c906) 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (ep) 
58	Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B PCI Ethernet (fxp, UNTESTED) 
59
60    SCSI Controllers
61	Adaptec 294x, 394x, and aic78x0 SCSI (ahc) 
62	BusLogic 9xx SCSI (bha, Works on Alpha PC164) 
63	Qlogic ISP 10x0-family SCSI (isp) 
64	NCR/Symbios 53c8xx-family SCSI (ncr, NCR825 Doesn't always work) 
65
66    Miscellaneous Devices
67	Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial boards (cy, UNTESTED) 
68	PCI-PCI bridges (ppb, tested with the DECchip 21050, but should
69	    work with all bridges and system firmware revisions that
70	    comply with the PCI-PCI bridge specification) 
71
72ISA Bus
73
74    Network Cards
75	3Com 3c509 Ethernet (ep) 
76
77    Miscellaneous Devices
78	PC-style parallel ports (lpt) 
79	NS16450 and NS16550 UARTs (com) 
80	ISA multi-port 16x50 boards (such as ast, boca--only boca has
81	    been tested) 
82
83EISA Bus
84
85    Network Cards
86	DEC DEFEA FDDI (fea) 
87	3Com 3c5xx series (ed, UNTESTED) 
88
89    SCSI Controllers
90	Adaptec 274x and aic7770 SCSI (ahc, UNTESTED) 
91	BusLogic 7xx SCSI (bha, UNTESTED) 
92
93Turbochannel Bus
94
95    Graphics Adapters
96	 CFB video (PMAG-BA, cfb) 
97	 SFB video (PMAGB-BA, sfb) 
98    (Note that although these boards are supported by NetBSD/alpha,
99    since there is no keyboard or mouse support available for the
100    TurboChannel systems, they aren't very useful.)
101
102    Network Cards
103	DEC LANCE Ethernet (PMAD-AA, le, UNTESTED) 
104	DEC DEFTA FDDI (PMAF-F, fta) 
105
106Note that PC-style floppy disk drives are not supported in 1.3, but are
107supported to some degree in NetBSD-current.
108
109Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
110about:
111
112    Floppy drives (though you can boot the install disk from them).
113
114Note that some devices, especially ISA-based devices, have to have
115certain settings set properly for the install and GENERIC kernels to
116detect them. (Once installed, you can always rebuild your own kernel
117to detect them anywhere you wish, of course.) Here is a list of such
118devices and the necessary settings:
119
120Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
121------		----	----	---	---	----
122Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
123		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
124		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
125
126Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
127		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
128		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
129
130AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
131		ahb0	any  	any	any
132
133AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
134		ahc0	any  	any any
135
136Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
137		bha0 	0x330	any	any
138		bha1 	0x334	any	any
139
140MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
141		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
142		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
143
144ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
145SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
146SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
147SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
148	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
149	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
150	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
151	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
152
1533COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
154		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
155		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
156
157Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
158		fxp0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
159					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
160