hardware revision 1.30 
1	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.30 1998/05/20 17:16:08 drochner 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			Digital EtherWORKS II ISA adapters (DE200/DE201/DE202)
77		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
78			Addtron AE-350
79			BOCALANcard/PCI
80			SVEC FD0455
81			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
82			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
83		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
84		3COM 3c501
85		3COM 3c503
86		3COM 3c505 [*]
87		3COM 3c507
88		3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c59X, and 3c90X
89		3COM 3c589
90		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
91			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
92			Cogent EM964 [b]
93			Cogent EM4XX [b]
94			Compex Readylink PCI
95			DANPEX EN-9400P3
96			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
97			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
98			JCIS Condor JC1260
99			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
100			SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
101			SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
102			SVEC PN0455
103			SVEC FD1000-TP
104			Znyx ZX34X
105		Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
106		Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
107		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
108		Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards:
109			Fujitsu FMV-180 series
110			Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
111			Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
112		Intel EtherExpress 16
113		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
114		Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
115		Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
116		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
117		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
118		SMC91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
119		Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards:
120			Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
121			Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
122			Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
123			Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
124			Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
125			Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
126			Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
127			Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
128			Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 series laptop
129				docking station Ethernet board
130	FDDI adapters:
131		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
132		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
133	Tape drives:
134		Most SCSI tape drives
135		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
136			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
137	CD-ROM drives:
138		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
139			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
140			to cause trouble with several devices!]
141		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
142		Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
143			[ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
144			 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
145			 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
146			 table) to work with NetBSD.]
147	Mice:
148		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
149		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
150		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
151		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
152	Sound Cards:
153		SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16 [*] [+]
154		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
155			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
156		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
157		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
158		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
159		Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play [*] [+]
160		Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+]
161	Game Ports (Joysticks). [*] [+]
162	Miscellaneous:
163		Advanced power management (APM) [*]
164
165Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
166distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
167on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
168support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
169allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
170them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
171
172Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
173although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
174
175Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
176bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
177have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
178
179Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
180about:
181	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
182					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
183	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
184		run fine using one processor only.)
185	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
186	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
187	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
188		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
189
190We are planning future support for many of these devices.
191
192To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
193be configured as follows:
194
195Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
196------		----	----	---	---	----
197Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
198		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
199		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
200
201Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
202		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
203		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
204
205Floppy controller
206		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
207
208AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
209		aha0	0x330	any	any
210		aha1	0x334	any	any
211
212AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
213		ahb0	any  	any	any
214
215AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
216		aic0	0x340	11	6
217
218AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
219		ahc0	any  	any any
220
221BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
222		bha0 	0x330	any	any
223		bha1 	0x334	any	any
224
225Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
226		ncr0	any  	any	any
227
228Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
229		uha0	0x330	any	any
230		uha1	0x340	any	any
231
232Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
233		wds0	0x350	15	6
234		wds1	0x358	11	5
235
236MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
237		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
238		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
239
240ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
241SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
242SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
243SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
244	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
245	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
246	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
247	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
248
2493Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
250		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
251
252Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
253		ne0 	0x280	9
254		ne1 	0x300	10
255
256SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
257		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
258		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
259
2603COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
261		ep0 	any  	any
262
2633COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
264		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
265		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
266
267AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
268EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
269		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
270		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
271
272Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
273		iy0		0x360	any
274
275Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
276		fxp0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
277					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
278
279SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
280		sm0	0x300	10
281
282PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
283		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
284		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
285
286DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
287		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
288		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
289
290Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
291		lc0 	any  	any
292