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hardware revision 1.29
      1 	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.29 1998/05/14 08:14:59 augustss 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 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 
    164 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    165 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    166 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    167 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    168 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    169 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    170 
    171 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    172 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    173 
    174 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    175 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    176 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    177 
    178 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    179 about:
    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 
    189 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    190 
    191 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    192 be configured as follows:
    193 
    194 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    195 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    196 Serial 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 
    200 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    201 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    202 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    203 
    204 Floppy controller
    205 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    206 
    207 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    208 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    209 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    210 
    211 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    212 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    213 
    214 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    215 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    216 
    217 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    218 		ahc0	any  	any any
    219 
    220 BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    221 		bha0 	0x330	any	any
    222 		bha1 	0x334	any	any
    223 
    224 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    225 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    226 
    227 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    228 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    229 		uha1	0x340	any	any
    230 
    231 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    232 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    233 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    234 
    235 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    236 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    237 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    238 
    239 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    240 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    241 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    242 SCSI 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 
    248 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
    249 		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
    250 
    251 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    252 		ne0 	0x280	9
    253 		ne1 	0x300	10
    254 
    255 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
    256 		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
    257 		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    258 
    259 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    260 		ep0 	any  	any
    261 
    262 3COM 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 
    266 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    267 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    268 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    269 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    270 
    271 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
    272 		iy0		0x360	any
    273 
    274 Intel 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 
    278 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
    279 		sm0	0x300	10
    280 
    281 PCnet-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 
    285 DC21x4x 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 
    289 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    290 		lc0 	any  	any
    291