Home | History | Annotate | Line # | Download | only in i386
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