hardware revision 1.11 
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		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
121			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
122			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
123			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
124			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
125	Mice:
126		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
127		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
128		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
129		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
130	Sound Cards:
131		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
132		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
133			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
134			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
135		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
136		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
137		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
138	Miscellaneous:
139		APM power management
140
141Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
142distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
143on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
144support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
145allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
146them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
147
148
149Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
150although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
151
152Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
153bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
154have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
155
156Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
157about:
158	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
159					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
160	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
161	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
162		run fine using one processor only.)
163	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
164	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
165	PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
166	 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
167	  FTP sites]
168	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
169		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
170
171We are planning future support for many of these devices.
172
173To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
174be configured as follows:
175
176Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
177------		----	----	---	---	----
178Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
179		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
180		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
181
182Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
183		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
184		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
185
186Floppy controller
187		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
188
189AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
190		aha0	0x330	any	any
191		aha1	0x334	any	any
192
193AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
194		ahb0	any  	any	any
195
196AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
197		aic0	0x340	11	6
198
199AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
200		ahc0	any  	any any
201
202Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
203		bt0 	0x330	any	any
204		bt1 	0x334	any	any
205
206Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
207		ncr0	any  	any	any
208
209Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
210		uha0	0x330	any	any
211		uha1	0x334	any	any
212
213Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
214		wds0	0x350	15	6
215		wds1	0x358	11	5
216
217MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
218		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
219		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
220
221ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
222SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
223SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
224SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
225	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
226	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
227	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
228	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
229
230SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
231Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
232		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
233		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
234		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
235
2363COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
237		ep0 	any  	any
238
2393COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
240		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
241		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
242
243AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
244EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
245		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
246		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
247
248PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
249		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
250		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
251
252DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
253		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
254		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
255
256Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
257		lc0 	any  	any
258