hardware revision 1.29 
1	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.29 1998/05/14 08:14:59 augustss 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		Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+]
160	Game Ports (Joysticks). [*] [+]
161	Miscellaneous:
162		Advanced power management (APM) [*]
163
164Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
165distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
166on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
167support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
168allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
169them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
170
171Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
172although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
173
174Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
175bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
176have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
177
178Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
179about:
180	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
181					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
182	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
183		run fine using one processor only.)
184	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
185	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
186	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
187		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
188
189We are planning future support for many of these devices.
190
191To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
192be configured as follows:
193
194Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
195------		----	----	---	---	----
196Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
197		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
198		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
199
200Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
201		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
202		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
203
204Floppy controller
205		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
206
207AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
208		aha0	0x330	any	any
209		aha1	0x334	any	any
210
211AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
212		ahb0	any  	any	any
213
214AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
215		aic0	0x340	11	6
216
217AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
218		ahc0	any  	any any
219
220BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
221		bha0 	0x330	any	any
222		bha1 	0x334	any	any
223
224Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
225		ncr0	any  	any	any
226
227Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
228		uha0	0x330	any	any
229		uha1	0x340	any	any
230
231Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
232		wds0	0x350	15	6
233		wds1	0x358	11	5
234
235MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
236		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
237		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
238
239ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
240SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
241SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
242SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
243	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
244	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
245	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
246	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
247
2483Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
249		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
250
251Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
252		ne0 	0x280	9
253		ne1 	0x300	10
254
255SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
256		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
257		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
258
2593COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
260		ep0 	any  	any
261
2623COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
263		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
264		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
265
266AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
267EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
268		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
269		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
270
271Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
272		iy0		0x360	any
273
274Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
275		fxp0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
276					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
277
278SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
279		sm0	0x300	10
280
281PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
282		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
283		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
284
285DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
286		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
287		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
288
289Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
290		lc0 	any  	any
291