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NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
this minimal today.  To install the entire system requires much more
disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
(4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
won't be speedy.  Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)

Supported devices include:
	Floppy controllers.
	MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
	SCSI host adapters:
		Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF 
		Adaptec AHA-174x
		Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
			the Adaptec AHA-152x, Adaptec AHA-1460 (PCMCIA),
			and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter.  (Note
			that you cannot boot from these boards if they
			do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and
			motherboards using this chip are likely to be
			bootable, consequently.)
		Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
			using the AIC78X0 chip.
		Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
		Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
		BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
			of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
		Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
			ST01/02
			Future Domain TMC-885
			Future Domain TMC-950
		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
			Acculogic PCIpport
			ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
					boot from disks)
			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
					of these cards have a jumper to set
					the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
					the SYM 8125)
			Tyan Yorktown
		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)

	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
		information.)
	Serial ports:
		8250/16450-based ports
		16550/16650/16750-based ports
		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
	Parallel ports.
	Ethernet adapters:
		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
			Novell NE1500T
			Novell NE2100
			Kingston 21xx
		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
			Addtron AE-350
			BOCALANcard/PCI
			SVEC FD0455
			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
		3COM 3c501
		3COM 3c503
		3COM 3c505 [*]
		3COM 3c507
		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
		3COM 3c589
		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
			Cogent EM964 [b]
			Cogent EM4XX [b]
			Compex Readylink PCI
			DANPEX EN-9400P3
			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
			JCIS Condor JC1260
			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
			SVEC PN0455
			SVEC FD1000-TP
			Znyx ZX34X
		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
		Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
		Intel EtherExpress 16
		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
		Novell NE1000, NE2000
		Texas Intruments Thunderland based ethernet board:
			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
	FDDI adapters:
		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
	Tape drives:
		Most SCSI tape drives
		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
	CD-ROM drives:
		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
			to cause trouble with several devices!]
		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
	Mice:
		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
	Sound Cards:
		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
	Miscellaneous:
		Advanced power management (APM)

Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.


Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.

Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.

Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
about:
	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
	Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
		run fine using one processor only.)
	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
	PCMCIA ("PC Card") miniature IDE devices
	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)

We are planning future support for many of these devices.

To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:

Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
------		----	----	---	---	----
Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]

Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]

Floppy controller
		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]

AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
		aha0	0x330	any	any
		aha1	0x334	any	any

AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
		ahb0	any  	any	any

AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
		aic0	0x340	11	6

AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
		ahc0	any  	any any

Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
		bt0 	0x330	any	any
		bt1 	0x334	any	any

Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
		ncr0	any  	any	any

Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
		uha0	0x330	any	any
		uha1	0x334	any	any

Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
		wds0	0x350	15	6
		wds1	0x358	11	5

MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]

ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...

SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
		ed0 	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
		ed1 	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
		ed2 	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000

3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
		ep0 	any  	any

3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]

AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000

PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]

DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]

Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
		lc0 	any  	any