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hardware revision 1.15
      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.
     29 		Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
     30 		Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
     31 		BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
     32 			of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
     33 		Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
     34 			ST01/02
     35 			Future Domain TMC-885
     36 			Future Domain TMC-950
     37 		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
     38 			Acculogic PCIpport
     39 			ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
     40 					boot from disks)
     41 			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
     42 			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
     43 			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
     44 			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
     45 					of these cards have a jumper to set
     46 					the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
     47 			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
     48 					the SYM 8125)
     49 			Tyan Yorktown
     50 		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
     51 		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
     52 		[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
     53 		 floppies.]
     54 
     55 	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
     56 		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
     57 		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
     58 		information.)
     59 	Serial ports:
     60 		8250/16450-based ports
     61 		16550/16650/16750-based ports
     62 		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
     63 		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
     64 		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
     65 		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
     66 	Parallel ports.
     67 	Ethernet adapters:
     68 		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
     69 			Novell NE1500T
     70 			Novell NE2100
     71 			Kingston 21xx
     72 		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     73 			Addtron AE-350
     74 			BOCALANcard/PCI
     75 			SVEC FD0455
     76 			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
     77 			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
     78 		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
     79 		3COM 3c501
     80 		3COM 3c503
     81 		3COM 3c505 [*]
     82 		3COM 3c507
     83 		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
     84 		3COM 3c589
     85 		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     86 			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
     87 			Cogent EM964 [b]
     88 			Cogent EM4XX [b]
     89 			Compex Readylink PCI
     90 			DANPEX EN-9400P3
     91 			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
     92 			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
     93 			JCIS Condor JC1260
     94 			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
     95 			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
     96 			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
     97 			SVEC PN0455
     98 			SVEC FD1000-TP
     99 			Znyx ZX34X
    100 		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    101 		Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
    102 		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
    103 		Intel EtherExpress 16
    104 		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
    105 		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
    106 		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
    107 		Novell NE1000, NE2000
    108 		Texas Intruments Thunderland based ethernet board:
    109 			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
    110 			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
    111 			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
    112 			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
    113 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
    114 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
    115 			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
    116 			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
    117 	FDDI adapters:
    118 		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    119 		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    120 	Tape drives:
    121 		Most SCSI tape drives
    122 		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
    123 			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
    124 	CD-ROM drives:
    125 		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
    126 			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
    127 			to cause trouble with several devices!]
    128 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
    129 		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
    130 			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
    131 			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
    132 			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
    133 			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
    134 	Mice:
    135 		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    136 		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    137 		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
    138 		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
    139 	Sound Cards:
    140 		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
    141 		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
    142 			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
    143 			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
    144 		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
    145 		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
    146 		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
    147 	Miscellaneous:
    148 		Advanced power management (APM)
    149 
    150 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    151 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    152 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    153 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    154 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    155 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    156 
    157 
    158 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    159 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    160 
    161 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    162 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    163 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    164 
    165 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    166 about:
    167 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    168 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    169 	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
    170 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    171 		run fine using one processor only.)
    172 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    173 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    174 	PCMCIA ("PC Card") miniature IDE devices
    175 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    176 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    177 
    178 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    179 
    180 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    181 be configured as follows:
    182 
    183 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    184 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    185 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    186 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    187 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    188 
    189 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    190 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    191 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    192 
    193 Floppy controller
    194 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    195 
    196 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    197 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    198 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    199 
    200 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    201 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    202 
    203 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    204 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    205 
    206 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    207 		ahc0	any  	any any
    208 
    209 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    210 		bt0 	0x330	any	any
    211 		bt1 	0x334	any	any
    212 
    213 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    214 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    215 
    216 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    217 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    218 		uha1	0x334	any	any
    219 
    220 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    221 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    222 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    223 
    224 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    225 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    226 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    227 
    228 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    229 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    230 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    231 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    232 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    233 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    234 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    235 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    236 
    237 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
    238 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    239 		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
    240 		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
    241 		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    242 
    243 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    244 		ep0 	any  	any
    245 
    246 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
    247 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    248 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    249 
    250 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    251 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    252 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    253 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    254 
    255 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    256 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    257 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    258 
    259 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    260 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    261 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    262 
    263 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    264 		lc0 	any  	any
    265