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