hardware revision 1.28
1 $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.28 1998/02/13 04:22:11 enami Exp $ 2 3NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems 4with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It 5does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The 6minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk 7space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite 8this minimal today. To install the entire system requires much more 9disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources, 10requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space, 11etc), 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 13won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting 14more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.) 15 16Supported 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 APA-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 163Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the 164distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present 165on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels 166support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally 167allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of 168them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed. 169 170Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels, 171although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies. 172 173Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI 174bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards 175have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade. 176 177Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions 178about: 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 188We are planning future support for many of these devices. 189 190To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must 191be configured as follows: 192 193Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc 194------ ---- ---- --- --- ---- 195Serial 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 199Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling] 200 lpt1 0x278 [polling only] 201 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only] 202 203Floppy controller 204 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks] 205 206AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters 207 aha0 0x330 any any 208 aha1 0x334 any any 209 210AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode) 211 ahb0 any any any 212 213AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters 214 aic0 0x340 11 6 215 216AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters 217 ahc0 any any any 218 219BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters 220 bha0 0x330 any any 221 bha1 0x334 any any 222 223Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters 224 ncr0 any any any 225 226Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters 227 uha0 0x330 any any 228 uha1 0x340 any any 229 230Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters 231 wds0 0x350 15 6 232 wds1 0x358 11 5 233 234MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers 235 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices] 236 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices] 237 238ATA disks wd0, wd1, ... 239SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ... 240SCSI tapes st0, st1, ... 241SCSI 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 2473Com 3c503 Ethernet cards 248 ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000 249 250Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards 251 ne0 0x280 9 252 ne1 0x300 10 253 254SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards 255 we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000 256 we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000 257 2583COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards 259 ep0 any any 260 2613COM 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 265AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel 266EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards 267 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000 268 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000 269 270Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA 271 iy0 0x360 any 272 273Intel 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 277SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards 278 sm0 0x300 10 279 280PCnet-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 284DC21x4x 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 288Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205) 289 lc0 any any 290