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hardware revision 1.12
      1 NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
      2 with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
      3 does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
      4 minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
      5 space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
      6 this minimal today.  To install the entire system requires much more
      7 disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
      8 requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
      9 etc), 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
     11 won't be speedy.  Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
     12 more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
     13 
     14 Supported 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 to
     43 					boot from disks)
     44 			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
     45 			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
     46 			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
     47 			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
     48 					of these cards have a jumper to set
     49 					the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
     50 			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
     51 					the SYM 8125)
     52 			Tyan Yorktown
     53 		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
     54 		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
     55 		[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
     56 		 floppies.]
     57 
     58 	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
     59 		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
     60 		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
     61 		information.)
     62 	Serial ports:
     63 		8250/16450-based ports
     64 		16550/16650/16750-based ports
     65 		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
     66 		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
     67 		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
     68 		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
     69 	Parallel ports.
     70 	Ethernet adapters:
     71 		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
     72 			Novell NE1500T
     73 			Novell NE2100
     74 			Kingston 21xx
     75 		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     76 			Addtron AE-350
     77 			BOCALANcard/PCI
     78 			SVEC FD0455
     79 			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
     80 			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
     81 		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
     82 		3COM 3c501
     83 		3COM 3c503
     84 		3COM 3c505 [*]
     85 		3COM 3c507
     86 		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
     87 		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     88 			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
     89 			Cogent EM964 [b]
     90 			Cogent EM4XX [b]
     91 			Compex Readylink PCI
     92 			DANPEX EN-9400P3
     93 			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
     94 			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
     95 			JCIS Condor JC1260
     96 			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
     97 			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
     98 			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
     99 			SVEC PN0455
    100 			SVEC FD1000-TP
    101 			Znyx ZX34X
    102 		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    103 		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
    104 		Intel EtherExpress 16
    105 		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
    106 		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
    107 		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
    108 		Novell NE1000, NE2000
    109 	FDDI adapters:
    110 		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    111 		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    112 	Tape drives:
    113 		Most SCSI tape drives
    114 		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
    115 			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
    116 	CD-ROM drives:
    117 		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
    118 			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
    119 			to cause trouble with several devices!]
    120 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
    121 		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
    122 			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
    123 			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
    124 			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
    125 			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
    126 	Mice:
    127 		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    128 		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    129 		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
    130 		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
    131 	Sound Cards:
    132 		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
    133 		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
    134 			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
    135 			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
    136 		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
    137 		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
    138 		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
    139 	Miscellaneous:
    140 		Advanced power management (APM)
    141 
    142 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    143 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    144 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    145 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    146 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    147 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    148 
    149 
    150 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    151 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    152 
    153 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    154 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    155 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    156 
    157 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    158 about:
    159 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    160 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    161 	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
    162 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    163 		run fine using one processor only.)
    164 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    165 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    166 	PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
    167 	 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
    168 	  FTP sites]
    169 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    170 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    171 
    172 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    173 
    174 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    175 be configured as follows:
    176 
    177 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    178 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    179 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    180 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    181 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    182 
    183 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    184 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    185 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    186 
    187 Floppy controller
    188 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    189 
    190 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    191 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    192 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    193 
    194 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    195 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    196 
    197 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    198 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    199 
    200 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    201 		ahc0	any  	any any
    202 
    203 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    204 		bt0 	0x330	any	any
    205 		bt1 	0x334	any	any
    206 
    207 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    208 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    209 
    210 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    211 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    212 		uha1	0x334	any	any
    213 
    214 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    215 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    216 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    217 
    218 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    219 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    220 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    221 
    222 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    223 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    224 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    225 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    226 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    227 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    228 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    229 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    230 
    231 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
    232 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    233 		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
    234 		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
    235 		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    236 
    237 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    238 		ep0 	any  	any
    239 
    240 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
    241 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    242 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    243 
    244 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    245 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    246 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    247 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    248 
    249 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    250 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    251 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    252 
    253 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    254 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    255 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    256 
    257 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    258 		lc0 	any  	any
    259