hardware revision 1.1
1 NetBSD/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 14 If your system is not listed here, it is not supported in this release, 15 but may be supported in more current versions of NetBSD. Check the 16 alpha port web pages at <http://www.netbsd.org/> for the most recent 17 information on this, or ask on the alpha mailing list, 18 <port-alpha (a] netbsd.org>. 19 20 NetBSD/alpha requires the Digital Unix PALcode, which basically means 21 that you need to have the SRM console installed on your machine. This 22 console can be distinguished from the ARC console (which is used to 23 boot Windows NT) by the fact that it has a command line interface, 24 rather than a menu-driven interface. 25 26 A basic system will fit on a 200 MB disk (including swap) without too 27 much difficulty, but you will probably want at least 500 MB of disk 28 to have any level of comfort. You will also need at least 32 MB of 29 RAM, and you will probably want more than that if you're running X. 30 31 We support add-in devices on the PCI, ISA, EISA and TurboChannel buses. 32 Because NetBSD has an extremely machine-independent device driver 33 system, many device drivers are the same as used in other ports that 34 use the same bus. For example, the de network card driver is shared 35 by the i386 and Alpha ports. Some drivers on inspection appear as if 36 they will work on the alpha but have not been tested because that 37 hardware was not available to NetBSD testers; these are marked as 38 `UNTESTED' below. If you have one of these devices, and it does work, 39 please get in touch with <port-alpha-maintainer (a] netbsd.org> and let 40 us know that it works. If it doesn't work, do the same thing and we 41 can probably fix it pretty easily. 42 43 Supported devices by bus type are: 44 45 PCI 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 72 ISA 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 83 EISA 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 93 Turbochannel 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) 105 106 Note that PC-style floppy disk drives are not supported in 1.3, but are 107 supported to some degree in NetBSD-current. 108 109 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions 110 about: 111 112 Floppy drives (though you can boot the install disk from them). 113 114 Note that some devices, especially ISA-based devices, have to have 115 certain settings set properly for the install and GENERIC kernels to 116 detect them. (Once installed, you can always rebuild your own kernel 117 to detect them anywhere you wish, of course.) Here is a list of such 118 devices and the necessary settings: 119 120 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc 121 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ---- 122 Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 123 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 124 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 125 126 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling] 127 lpt1 0x278 [polling only] 128 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only] 129 130 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode) 131 ahb0 any any any 132 133 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters 134 ahc0 any any any 135 136 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters 137 bha0 0x330 any any 138 bha1 0x334 any any 139 140 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers 141 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices] 142 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices] 143 144 ATA disks wd0, wd1, ... 145 SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ... 146 SCSI tapes st0, st1, ... 147 SCSI 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 ... 152 153 3COM 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] 156 157 Intel 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
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