hardware revision 1.27 1 $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.27 1998/01/14 15:31:41 drochner Exp $
2
3 NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
4 with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It
5 does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The
6 minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
7 space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
8 this minimal today. To install the entire system requires much more
9 disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
10 requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
11 etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
12 (4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
13 won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
14 more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
15
16 Supported devices include:
17 Floppy controllers.
18 MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
19 SCSI host adapters:
20 Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
21 Adaptec AHA-174x
22 Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
23 the Adaptec AHA-152x, Adaptec AHA-1460 (PCMCIA),
24 and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter. (Note
25 that you cannot boot from these boards if they
26 do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and
27 motherboards using this chip are likely to be
28 bootable, consequently.)
29 Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
30 using the AIC78X0 chip.
31 Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
32 BusLogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
33 BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
34 of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
35 Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
36 Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
37 ST01/02
38 Future Domain TMC-885
39 Future Domain TMC-950
40 Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
41 Acculogic PCIpport
42 ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
43 boot from disks)
44 ASUS SC-875
45 ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
46 DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
47 Diamond FirePort 40
48 Lomas Data SCSI adapters
49 NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
50 of these cards have a jumper to set
51 the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
52 Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
53 the SYM 8125)
54 Tyan Yorktown
55 Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
56 Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters
57 (ISA cards only)
58 MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
59 all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
60 are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
61 information.)
62 Serial ports:
63 8250/16450-based ports
64 16550/16650/16750-based ports
65 AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
66 BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
67 IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
68 Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
69 Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial cards [*] [+]
70 Parallel ports.
71 Ethernet adapters:
72 AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
73 Novell NE1500T
74 Novell NE2100
75 Kingston 21xx
76 AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
77 Addtron AE-350
78 BOCALANcard/PCI
79 SVEC FD0455
80 X/Lan Add-On Adapter
81 IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
82 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
83 3COM 3c501
84 3COM 3c503
85 3COM 3c505 [*]
86 3COM 3c507
87 3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
88 3COM 3c589
89 Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
90 Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
91 Cogent EM964 [b]
92 Cogent EM4XX [b]
93 Compex Readylink PCI
94 DANPEX EN-9400P3
95 Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
96 Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
97 JCIS Condor JC1260
98 Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
99 SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
100 SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
101 SVEC PN0455
102 SVEC FD1000-TP
103 Znyx ZX34X
104 Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
105 Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
106 BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
107 Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards:
108 Fujitsu FMV-180 series
109 Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
110 Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
111 Intel EtherExpress 16
112 Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
113 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
114 Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
115 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
116 SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
117 SMC91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
118 Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards:
119 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
120 Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
121 Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
122 Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
123 Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
124 Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
125 Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
126 Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
127 Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 series laptop
128 docking station Ethernet board
129 FDDI adapters:
130 Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
131 Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
132 Tape drives:
133 Most SCSI tape drives
134 QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
135 compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
136 CD-ROM drives:
137 Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
138 [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
139 to cause trouble with several devices!]
140 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
141 Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
142 [ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
143 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
144 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
145 table) to work with NetBSD.]
146 Mice:
147 "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
148 "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
149 "PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
150 Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
151 Sound Cards:
152 SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16 [*] [+]
153 Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
154 [The following drivers are not extensively tested]
155 Personal Sound System [*] [+]
156 Windows Sound System [*] [+]
157 ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
158 Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play [*] [+]
159 Game Ports (Joysticks). [*] [+]
160 Miscellaneous:
161 Advanced power management (APM) [*]
162
163 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
164 distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present
165 on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
166 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally
167 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
168 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
169
170 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
171 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
172
173 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
174 bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
175 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
176
177 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
178 about:
179 AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
180 PCnet-SCSI works fine)
181 Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should
182 run fine using one processor only.)
183 NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
184 PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
185 QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
186 that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
187
188 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
189
190 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
191 be configured as follows:
192
193 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
194 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
195 Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
196 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
197 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
198
199 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
200 lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
201 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
202
203 Floppy controller
204 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
205
206 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
207 aha0 0x330 any any
208 aha1 0x334 any any
209
210 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
211 ahb0 any any any
212
213 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
214 aic0 0x340 11 6
215
216 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
217 ahc0 any any any
218
219 BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
220 bha0 0x330 any any
221 bha1 0x334 any any
222
223 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
224 ncr0 any any any
225
226 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
227 uha0 0x330 any any
228 uha1 0x340 any any
229
230 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
231 wds0 0x350 15 6
232 wds1 0x358 11 5
233
234 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
235 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
236 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
237
238 ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
239 SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
240 SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
241 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
242 For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
243 present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
244 master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
245 be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
246
247 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
248 ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000
249
250 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
251 ne0 0x280 9
252 ne1 0x300 10
253
254 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
255 we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000
256 we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
257
258 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
259 ep0 any any
260
261 3COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
262 ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
263 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
264
265 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
266 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
267 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
268 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000
269
270 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
271 iy0 0x360 any
272
273 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
274 fxp0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
275 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
276
277 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
278 sm0 0x300 10
279
280 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
281 le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
282 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
283
284 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
285 de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
286 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
287
288 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
289 lc0 any any
290