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      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 		Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
     34 		Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
     35 		Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
     36 			ST01/02
     37 			Future Domain TMC-885
     38 			Future Domain TMC-950
     39 		Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
     40 			Acculogic PCIpport
     41 			ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
     42 					boot from disks)
     43 			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
     44 			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
     45 			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
     46 			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
     47 					of these cards have a jumper to set
     48 					the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
     49 			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
     50 					the SYM 8125)
     51 			Tyan Yorktown
     52 		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
     53 		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters
     54 			(ISA cards only)
     55 
     56 	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
     57 		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
     58 		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
     59 		information.)
     60 	Serial ports:
     61 		8250/16450-based ports
     62 		16550/16650/16750-based ports
     63 		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
     64 		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
     65 		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
     66 		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
     67 	Parallel ports.
     68 	Ethernet adapters:
     69 		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
     70 			Novell NE1500T
     71 			Novell NE2100
     72 			Kingston 21xx
     73 		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     74 			Addtron AE-350
     75 			BOCALANcard/PCI
     76 			SVEC FD0455
     77 			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
     78 			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
     79 		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
     80 		3COM 3c501
     81 		3COM 3c503
     82 		3COM 3c505 [*]
     83 		3COM 3c507
     84 		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
     85 		3COM 3c589
     86 		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
     87 			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
     88 			Cogent EM964 [b]
     89 			Cogent EM4XX [b]
     90 			Compex Readylink PCI
     91 			DANPEX EN-9400P3
     92 			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
     93 			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
     94 			JCIS Condor JC1260
     95 			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
     96 			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
     97 			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
     98 			SVEC PN0455
     99 			SVEC FD1000-TP
    100 			Znyx ZX34X
    101 		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    102 		Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
    103 		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
    104 		Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards:
    105 			Fujitsu FMV-180 series
    106 			Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
    107 			Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
    108 		Intel EtherExpress 16
    109 		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
    110 		Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
    111 		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
    112 		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
    113 		SMC91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
    114 		Texas Intruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards:
    115 			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
    116 			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
    117 			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
    118 			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
    119 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
    120 			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
    121 			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
    122 			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
    123 			Texas Instruments, TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking
    124 				station's ethernet board
    125 	FDDI adapters:
    126 		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    127 		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
    128 	Tape drives:
    129 		Most SCSI tape drives
    130 		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
    131 			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
    132 	CD-ROM drives:
    133 		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
    134 			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
    135 			to cause trouble with several devices!]
    136 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
    137 		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
    138 			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
    139 			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
    140 			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
    141 			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
    142 	Mice:
    143 		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    144 		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
    145 		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
    146 		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
    147 	Sound Cards:
    148 		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
    149 		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
    150 			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
    151 			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
    152 		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
    153 		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
    154 		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
    155 	Miscellaneous:
    156 		Advanced power management (APM)
    157 
    158 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    159 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    160 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    161 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    162 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    163 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    164 
    165 
    166 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    167 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    168 
    169 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    170 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    171 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    172 
    173 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    174 about:
    175 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    176 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    177 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    178 		run fine using one processor only.)
    179 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    180 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    181 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    182 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    183 
    184 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    185 
    186 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    187 be configured as follows:
    188 
    189 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    190 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    191 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    192 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    193 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    194 
    195 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    196 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    197 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    198 
    199 Floppy controller
    200 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    201 
    202 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    203 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    204 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    205 
    206 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    207 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    208 
    209 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    210 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    211 
    212 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    213 		ahc0	any  	any any
    214 
    215 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    216 		bha0 	0x330	any	any
    217 		bha1 	0x334	any	any
    218 
    219 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    220 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    221 
    222 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    223 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    224 		uha1	0x334	any	any
    225 
    226 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    227 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    228 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    229 
    230 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    231 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    232 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    233 
    234 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    235 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    236 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    237 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    238 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    239 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    240 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    241 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    242 
    243 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
    244 		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
    245 
    246 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    247 		ne0 	0x280	9
    248 		ne1 	0x300	10
    249 
    250 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
    251 		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
    252 		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    253 
    254 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    255 		ep0 	any  	any
    256 
    257 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
    258 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    259 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    260 
    261 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    262 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    263 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    264 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    265 
    266 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
    267 		iy0	any	any
    268 
    269 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
    270 		sm0	0x300	10
    271 
    272 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    273 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    274 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    275 
    276 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    277 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    278 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    279 
    280 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    281 		lc0 	any  	any
    282