hardware revision 1.18 
1NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
2with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
3does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
4minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
5space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
6this minimal today.  To install the entire system requires much more
7disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
8requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
9etc), 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
11won't be speedy.  Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
12more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
13
14Supported 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	FDDI adapters:
124		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
125		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
126	Tape drives:
127		Most SCSI tape drives
128		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
129			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
130	CD-ROM drives:
131		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
132			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
133			to cause trouble with several devices!]
134		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
135		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
136			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
137			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
138			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
139			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
140	Mice:
141		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
142		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
143		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
144		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
145	Sound Cards:
146		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
147		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
148			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
149			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
150		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
151		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
152		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
153	Miscellaneous:
154		Advanced power management (APM)
155
156Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
157distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
158on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
159support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
160allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
161them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
162
163
164Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
165although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
166
167Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
168bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
169have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
170
171Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
172about:
173	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
174					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
175	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
176		run fine using one processor only.)
177	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
178	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
179	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
180		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
181
182We are planning future support for many of these devices.
183
184To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
185be configured as follows:
186
187Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
188------		----	----	---	---	----
189Serial 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
193Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
194		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
195		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
196
197Floppy controller
198		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
199
200AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
201		aha0	0x330	any	any
202		aha1	0x334	any	any
203
204AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
205		ahb0	any  	any	any
206
207AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
208		aic0	0x340	11	6
209
210AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
211		ahc0	any  	any any
212
213Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
214		bha0 	0x330	any	any
215		bha1 	0x334	any	any
216
217Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
218		ncr0	any  	any	any
219
220Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
221		uha0	0x330	any	any
222		uha1	0x334	any	any
223
224Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
225		wds0	0x350	15	6
226		wds1	0x358	11	5
227
228MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
229		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
230		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
231
232ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
233SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
234SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
235SCSI 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
2413Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
242		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
243
244Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
245		ne0 	0x280	9
246		ne1 	0x300	10
247
248SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
249		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
250		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
251
2523COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
253		ep0 	any  	any
254
2553COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
256		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
257		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
258
259AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
260EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
261		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
262		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
263
264Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
265		iy0	any	any
266
267SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
268		sm0	0x300	10
269
270PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
271		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
272		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
273
274DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
275		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
276		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
277
278Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
279		lc0 	any  	any
280