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