hardware revision 1.10 
1NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
2with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
3does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
4minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
5space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
6this minimal today.  To install the entire system requires much more
7disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
8requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
9etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
10(4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
11won't be speedy.  Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
12more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
13
14Supported devices include:
15	Floppy controllers.
16	MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
17	SCSI host adapters:
18		Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF 
19		Adaptec AHA-174x
20		Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
21			the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
22			host adapter.  (Note that you cannot boot from
23			these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
24			only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
25			are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
26		Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
27			using the AIC78X0 chip.  There is a known problem
28			using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or
29			AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple
30			targets, due to resource contention which is not
31			handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
32		Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
33		Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
34		BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
35			of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
36                Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
37                        ST01/02
38                        Future Domain TMC-885
39                        Future Domain TMC-950
40		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
41			Acculogic PCIpport
42			ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard)
43			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
44			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
45			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
46			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
47				      of these cards have a jumper to set
48				      the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
49			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
50				       the SYM 8125)
51			Tyan Yorktown
52		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
53		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
54		[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
55		 floppies.]
56
57	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
58		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
59		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
60		information.)
61	Serial ports:
62		8250/16450-based ports
63		16550/16650/16750-based ports
64		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
65		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
66		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
67		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
68	Parallel ports.
69	Ethernet adapters:
70		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
71			Novell NE1500T
72			Novell NE2100
73			Kingston 21xx
74		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
75			Addtron AE-350
76			BOCALANcard/PCI
77			SVEC FD0455
78			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
79			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
80		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
81		3COM 3c501
82		3COM 3c503
83		3COM 3c505 [*]
84		3COM 3c507
85		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
86		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
87			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
88			Cogent EM964 [b]
89			Cogent EM4XX [b]
90			Compex Readylink PCI
91			DANPEX EN-9400P3
92			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
93			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
94			JCIS Condor JC1260
95			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
96                        SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
97                        SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
98			SVEC PN0455
99			SVEC FD1000-TP
100                        Znyx ZX34X
101		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
102		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
103		Intel EtherExpress 16
104		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
105		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
106		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
107		Novell NE1000, NE2000
108	FDDI adapters:
109		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
110		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
111	Tape drives:
112		Most SCSI tape drives
113		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
114			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
115	CD-ROM drives:
116		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
117			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
118			to cause trouble with several devices!]
119		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
120	Mice:
121		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
122		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
123		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
124		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
125	Sound Cards:
126		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
127		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
128			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
129			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
130		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
131		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
132		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
133	Miscellaneous:
134		APM power management
135
136Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
137distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
138on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
139support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
140allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
141them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
142
143
144Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
145although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
146
147Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
148bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
149have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
150
151Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
152about:
153	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
154				       PCnet-SCSI works fine)
155        Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
156        Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
157                run fine using one processor only.)
158        NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
159	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
160	PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
161	 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
162	  FTP sites]
163	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
164		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
165
166We are planning future support for many of these devices.
167
168To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
169be configured as follows:
170
171Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
172------		----	----	---	---	----
173Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
174		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
175		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
176
177Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
178		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
179		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
180
181MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller
182		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two disks]
183
184Floppy controller
185		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
186
187AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
188		aha0	0x330	any	any
189		aha1	0x334	any	any
190
191AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
192		ahb0	any	any	any
193
194AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
195                aic0    0x340   11      6
196
197AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
198                ahc0    any     any     any
199
200Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
201		bt0	0x330	any	any
202		bt1	0x334	any	any
203
204Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
205		ncr0	any	any	any
206
207Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
208                uha0    0x330   any     any
209		uha1	0x334	any	any
210
211Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
212		wds0	0x350	15	6
213		wds1	0x358	11	5
214
215SCSI disks	sd0	first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
216		sd1	second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
217		sd2	third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
218		sd3	fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
219
220SCSI tapes	st0	first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
221		st1	second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
222
223SCSI CD-ROMs	cd0	first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
224		cd1	second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
225
226SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
227Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
228		ed0	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
229		ed1	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
230		ed2	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
231
2323COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
233		ep0	any	any
234
2353COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
236		ep0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
237					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
238
239AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
240EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
241		ie0	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
242		ie1	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
243
244PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
245		le0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
246					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
247
248DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
249		de0	any	any 	[you must assign an interrupt in your
250					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
251
252Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
253		lc0	any	any
254