hardware revision 1.5
1 $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.5 1998/05/15 17:20:00 matt Exp $ 2 3 NetBSD/alpha _VER runs on the following DEC Alpha platforms: 4 5 DEC 3000/500-family systems 6 DEC 3000/300-family systems 7 Digital AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, and 400 systems 8 Digital AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems 9 Digital AXPpci systems (including UDB and Multia) 10 EB64+-family systems (including Digital EB64+ and third-party 11 AlphaPC 64 systems) 12 EB164-family systems (including Digital EB164 and third-party 13 AlphaPC 164 systems) 14 Digital AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems 15 16 If your system is not listed here, it is not supported in this release, 17 but may be supported in more current versions of NetBSD. Check the 18 alpha port web pages at <http://www.netbsd.org/> for the most recent 19 information on this, or ask on the alpha mailing list, 20 <port-alpha (a] netbsd.org>. 21 22 NetBSD/alpha requires the Digital Unix PALcode, which basically means 23 that you need to have the SRM console installed on your machine. This 24 console can be distinguished from the ARC console (which is used to 25 boot Windows NT) by the fact that it has a command line interface, 26 rather than a menu-driven interface. 27 28 A basic system will fit on a 200 MB disk (including swap) without too 29 much difficulty, but you will probably want at least 500 MB of disk 30 to have any level of comfort. You will also need at least 32 MB of 31 RAM, and you will probably want more than that if you're running X. 32 33 We support add-in devices on the PCI, ISA, EISA and TurboChannel buses. 34 Because NetBSD has an extremely machine-independent device driver 35 system, many device drivers are the same as used in other ports that 36 use the same bus. For example, the `de' network card driver is shared 37 by the i386 and Alpha ports. Some drivers on inspection appear as if 38 they will work on the alpha but have not been tested because that 39 hardware was not available to NetBSD testers; these are marked as 40 `UNTESTED' below. If you have one of these devices, and it does work, 41 please get in touch with <port-alpha-maintainer (a] netbsd.org> and let 42 us know that it works. If it doesn't work, do the same thing and we 43 can probably fix it pretty easily. 44 45 Supported devices by bus type are: 46 47 PCI Bus 48 49 Graphics Adapters 50 VGA-compatible video (pcivga) 51 ZLXp-E1 video (DECchip 21030-based video, tga, NOTE: ZLXp-E2 52 and ZLXp-E3 boards are not supported in NetBSD _VER.)) 53 54 Network Cards 55 DECchip 21x40-family 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (de) 56 DEC DEFPA FDDI (fpa) 57 PCI LANCE Ethernet (le, UNTESTED) 58 Efficient Networks ENI-155p ATM (en, UNTESTED) 59 3Com 3c59x and 3c90x (except 3c906) 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (ep) 60 Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B PCI Ethernet (fxp, UNTESTED) 61 62 SCSI Controllers 63 Adaptec 294x, 394x, and aic78x0 SCSI (ahc) 64 BusLogic 9xx SCSI (bha, Works on Alpha PC164) 65 Qlogic ISP 10x0-family SCSI (isp) 66 NCR/Symbios 53c8xx-family SCSI (ncr, NCR825 Doesn't always work) 67 68 Miscellaneous Devices 69 Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial boards (cy, UNTESTED) 70 PCI-PCI bridges (ppb, tested with the DECchip 21050, but should 71 work with all bridges and system firmware revisions that 72 comply with the PCI-PCI bridge specification) 73 74 ISA Bus 75 76 Network Cards 77 3Com 3c509 Ethernet (ep) 78 DEC DE200,DE201,DE202 (le) 79 DEC DE203,DE204,DE205 (lc) 80 81 Miscellaneous Devices 82 PC-style parallel ports (lpt) 83 NS16450 and NS16550 UARTs (com) 84 ISA multi-port 16x50 boards (such as ast, boca--only boca has 85 been tested) 86 87 EISA Bus 88 89 Network Cards 90 DEC DEFEA FDDI (fea) 91 3Com 3c5xx series (ed, UNTESTED) 92 93 SCSI Controllers 94 Adaptec 274x and aic7770 SCSI (ahc, UNTESTED) 95 BusLogic 7xx SCSI (bha, UNTESTED) 96 97 Turbochannel Bus 98 99 Graphics Adapters 100 CFB video (PMAG-BA, cfb) 101 SFB video (PMAGB-BA, sfb) 102 (Note that although these boards are supported by NetBSD/alpha, 103 since there is no keyboard or mouse support available for the 104 TurboChannel systems, they aren't very useful.) 105 106 Network Cards 107 DEC LANCE Ethernet (PMAD-AA, le, UNTESTED) 108 DEC DEFTA FDDI (PMAF-F, fta) 109 110 Note that PC-style floppy disk drives are not supported in 1.3 111 (except to boot from), but are supported to some degree in 112 NetBSD-current. 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] 160 161 DEC DE200,201,202 EtherWORKS II/Turbo ISA Ethernet boards 162 le? 0x300 5 memory at D0000-DFFFF 163 le? 0x200 10 memory at D8000-DFFFF 164 165 You should enter the following SRM console command to enable the device: 166 167 >>> isacfg -mk -slot ? -dev 0 -handle DE200-LE -irq0 5 -membase0 d0000 -memlen0 10000 168 -iobase0 300 -etyp 1 -enadev 1 169 170 DEC DE203,204,205 EtherWORKS III ISA Ethernet boards 171 lc0 0x300 any 172 lc1 0x320 any 173 174 You should enter the following SRM console command to enable the device: 175 176 >>> add_de205 177
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