hardware revision 1.31 1 $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.31 1998/05/22 11:47:01 drochner 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 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 (but not 3c905B)
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
165 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
166 distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present
167 on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
168 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally
169 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
170 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
171
172 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
173 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
174
175 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
176 bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
177 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
178
179 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
180 about:
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
190 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
191
192 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
193 be configured as follows:
194
195 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
196 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
197 Serial 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
201 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
202 lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
203 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
204
205 Floppy controller
206 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
207
208 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
209 aha0 0x330 any any
210 aha1 0x334 any any
211
212 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
213 ahb0 any any any
214
215 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
216 aic0 0x340 11 6
217
218 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
219 ahc0 any any any
220
221 BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
222 bha0 0x330 any any
223 bha1 0x334 any any
224
225 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
226 ncr0 any any any
227
228 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
229 uha0 0x330 any any
230 uha1 0x340 any any
231
232 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
233 wds0 0x350 15 6
234 wds1 0x358 11 5
235
236 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
237 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
238 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
239
240 ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
241 SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
242 SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
243 SCSI 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
249 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
250 ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000
251
252 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
253 ne0 0x280 9
254 ne1 0x300 10
255
256 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
257 we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000
258 we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
259
260 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
261 ep0 any any
262
263 3COM 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
267 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
268 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
269 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
270 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000
271
272 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
273 iy0 0x360 any
274
275 Intel 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
279 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
280 sm0 0x300 10
281
282 PCnet-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
286 DC21x4x 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
290 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
291 lc0 any any
292