hardware revision 1.12 
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 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
142Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
143distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
144on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
145support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
146allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
147them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
148
149
150Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
151although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
152
153Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
154bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
155have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
156
157Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
158about:
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
172We are planning future support for many of these devices.
173
174To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
175be configured as follows:
176
177Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
178------		----	----	---	---	----
179Serial 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
183Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
184		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
185		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
186
187Floppy controller
188		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
189
190AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
191		aha0	0x330	any	any
192		aha1	0x334	any	any
193
194AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
195		ahb0	any  	any	any
196
197AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
198		aic0	0x340	11	6
199
200AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
201		ahc0	any  	any any
202
203Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
204		bt0 	0x330	any	any
205		bt1 	0x334	any	any
206
207Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
208		ncr0	any  	any	any
209
210Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
211		uha0	0x330	any	any
212		uha1	0x334	any	any
213
214Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
215		wds0	0x350	15	6
216		wds1	0x358	11	5
217
218MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
219		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
220		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
221
222ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
223SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
224SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
225SCSI 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
231SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
232Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
233		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
234		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
235		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
236
2373COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
238		ep0 	any  	any
239
2403COM 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
244AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
245EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
246		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
247		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
248
249PCnet-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
253DC21x4x 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
257Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
258		lc0 	any  	any
259