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hardware revision 1.13
      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 		Texas Intruments Thunderland based ethernet board:
    110 			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
    111 			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
    112 			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
    113 			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
    114 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
    115 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
    116 			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
    117 			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
    118 	FDDI adapters:
    119 		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    120 		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    121 	Tape drives:
    122 		Most SCSI tape drives
    123 		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
    124 			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
    125 	CD-ROM drives:
    126 		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
    127 			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
    128 			to cause trouble with several devices!]
    129 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
    130 		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
    131 			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
    132 			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
    133 			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
    134 			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
    135 	Mice:
    136 		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    137 		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    138 		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
    139 		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
    140 	Sound Cards:
    141 		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
    142 		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
    143 			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
    144 			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
    145 		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
    146 		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
    147 		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
    148 	Miscellaneous:
    149 		Advanced power management (APM)
    150 
    151 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    152 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    153 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    154 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    155 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    156 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    157 
    158 
    159 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    160 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    161 
    162 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    163 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    164 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    165 
    166 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    167 about:
    168 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    169 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    170 	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
    171 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    172 		run fine using one processor only.)
    173 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    174 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    175 	PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
    176 	 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
    177 	  FTP sites]
    178 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    179 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    180 
    181 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    182 
    183 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    184 be configured as follows:
    185 
    186 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    187 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    188 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    189 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    190 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    191 
    192 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    193 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    194 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    195 
    196 Floppy controller
    197 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    198 
    199 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    200 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    201 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    202 
    203 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    204 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    205 
    206 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    207 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    208 
    209 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    210 		ahc0	any  	any any
    211 
    212 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    213 		bt0 	0x330	any	any
    214 		bt1 	0x334	any	any
    215 
    216 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    217 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    218 
    219 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    220 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    221 		uha1	0x334	any	any
    222 
    223 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    224 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    225 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    226 
    227 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    228 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    229 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    230 
    231 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    232 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    233 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    234 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    235 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    236 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    237 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    238 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    239 
    240 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
    241 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    242 		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
    243 		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
    244 		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    245 
    246 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    247 		ep0 	any  	any
    248 
    249 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
    250 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    251 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    252 
    253 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    254 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    255 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    256 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    257 
    258 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    259 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    260 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    261 
    262 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    263 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    264 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    265 
    266 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    267 		lc0 	any  	any
    268