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