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hardware revision 1.14
      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, Adaptec AHA-1460 (PCMCIA),
     22 			and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter.  (Note
     23 			that you cannot boot from these boards if they
     24 			do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and
     25 			motherboards using this chip are likely to be
     26 			bootable, consequently.)
     27 		Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
     28 			using the AIC78X0 chip.  There is a known problem
     29 			using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or
     30 			AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple
     31 			targets, due to resource contention which is not
     32 			handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
     33 		Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
     34 		Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
     35 		BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
     36 			of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
     37 		Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
     38 			ST01/02
     39 			Future Domain TMC-885
     40 			Future Domain TMC-950
     41 		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
     42 			Acculogic PCIpport
     43 			ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
     44 					boot from disks)
     45 			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
     46 			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
     47 			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
     48 			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
     49 					of these cards have a jumper to set
     50 					the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
     51 			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
     52 					the SYM 8125)
     53 			Tyan Yorktown
     54 		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
     55 		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
     56 		[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
     57 		 floppies.]
     58 
     59 	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
     60 		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
     61 		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
     62 		information.)
     63 	Serial ports:
     64 		8250/16450-based ports
     65 		16550/16650/16750-based ports
     66 		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
     67 		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
     68 		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
     69 		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
     70 	Parallel ports.
     71 	Ethernet adapters:
     72 		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
     73 			Novell NE1500T
     74 			Novell NE2100
     75 			Kingston 21xx
     76 		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     77 			Addtron AE-350
     78 			BOCALANcard/PCI
     79 			SVEC FD0455
     80 			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
     81 			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
     82 		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
     83 		3COM 3c501
     84 		3COM 3c503
     85 		3COM 3c505 [*]
     86 		3COM 3c507
     87 		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
     88 		3COM 3c589
     89 		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     90 			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
     91 			Cogent EM964 [b]
     92 			Cogent EM4XX [b]
     93 			Compex Readylink PCI
     94 			DANPEX EN-9400P3
     95 			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
     96 			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
     97 			JCIS Condor JC1260
     98 			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
     99 			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
    100 			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
    101 			SVEC PN0455
    102 			SVEC FD1000-TP
    103 			Znyx ZX34X
    104 		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    105 		Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
    106 		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
    107 		Intel EtherExpress 16
    108 		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
    109 		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
    110 		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
    111 		Novell NE1000, NE2000
    112 		Texas Intruments Thunderland based ethernet board:
    113 			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
    114 			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
    115 			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
    116 			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
    117 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
    118 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
    119 			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
    120 			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
    121 	FDDI adapters:
    122 		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    123 		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    124 	Tape drives:
    125 		Most SCSI tape drives
    126 		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
    127 			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
    128 	CD-ROM drives:
    129 		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
    130 			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
    131 			to cause trouble with several devices!]
    132 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
    133 		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
    134 			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
    135 			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
    136 			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
    137 			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
    138 	Mice:
    139 		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    140 		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    141 		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
    142 		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
    143 	Sound Cards:
    144 		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
    145 		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
    146 			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
    147 			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
    148 		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
    149 		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
    150 		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
    151 	Miscellaneous:
    152 		Advanced power management (APM)
    153 
    154 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    155 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    156 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    157 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    158 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    159 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    160 
    161 
    162 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    163 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    164 
    165 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    166 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    167 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    168 
    169 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    170 about:
    171 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    172 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    173 	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
    174 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    175 		run fine using one processor only.)
    176 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    177 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    178 	PCMCIA ("PC Card") miniature IDE devices
    179 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    180 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    181 
    182 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    183 
    184 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    185 be configured as follows:
    186 
    187 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    188 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    189 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    190 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    191 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    192 
    193 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    194 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    195 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    196 
    197 Floppy controller
    198 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    199 
    200 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    201 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    202 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    203 
    204 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    205 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    206 
    207 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    208 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    209 
    210 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    211 		ahc0	any  	any any
    212 
    213 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    214 		bt0 	0x330	any	any
    215 		bt1 	0x334	any	any
    216 
    217 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    218 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    219 
    220 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    221 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    222 		uha1	0x334	any	any
    223 
    224 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    225 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    226 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    227 
    228 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    229 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    230 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    231 
    232 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    233 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    234 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    235 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    236 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    237 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    238 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    239 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    240 
    241 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
    242 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    243 		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
    244 		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
    245 		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    246 
    247 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    248 		ep0 	any  	any
    249 
    250 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
    251 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    252 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    253 
    254 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    255 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    256 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    257 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    258 
    259 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    260 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    261 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    262 
    263 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    264 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    265 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    266 
    267 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    268 		lc0 	any  	any
    269