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