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hardware revision 1.33
      1 	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.33 1998/07/03 11:32:14 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 			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 		Yamaha OPL3-SA3 [*] [+]
    162 		Aria based sound cards [*] [+]
    163 	Game Ports (Joysticks). [*] [+]
    164 	Miscellaneous:
    165 		Advanced power management (APM) [*]
    166 
    167 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
    168 distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
    169 on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
    170 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
    171 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
    172 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
    173 
    174 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
    175 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
    176 
    177 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
    178 bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
    179 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
    180 
    181 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
    182 about:
    183 	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
    184 					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
    185 	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
    186 		run fine using one processor only.)
    187 	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
    188 	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
    189 	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
    190 		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
    191 
    192 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
    193 
    194 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
    195 be configured as follows:
    196 
    197 Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
    198 ------		----	----	---	---	----
    199 Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    200 		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    201 		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
    202 
    203 Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
    204 		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
    205 		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
    206 
    207 Floppy controller
    208 		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
    209 
    210 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
    211 		aha0	0x330	any	any
    212 		aha1	0x334	any	any
    213 
    214 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
    215 		ahb0	any  	any	any
    216 
    217 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
    218 		aic0	0x340	11	6
    219 
    220 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
    221 		ahc0	any  	any any
    222 
    223 BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
    224 		bha0 	0x330	any	any
    225 		bha1 	0x334	any	any
    226 
    227 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
    228 		ncr0	any  	any	any
    229 
    230 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
    231 		uha0	0x330	any	any
    232 		uha1	0x340	any	any
    233 
    234 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
    235 		wds0	0x350	15	6
    236 		wds1	0x358	11	5
    237 
    238 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
    239 		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
    240 		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
    241 
    242 ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
    243 SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
    244 SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
    245 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
    246 	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
    247 	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
    248 	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
    249 	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
    250 
    251 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
    252 		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
    253 
    254 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
    255 		ne0 	0x280	9
    256 		ne1 	0x300	10
    257 
    258 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
    259 		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
    260 		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
    261 
    262 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
    263 		ep0 	any  	any
    264 
    265 3COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
    266 		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    267 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    268 
    269 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
    270 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
    271 		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
    272 		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
    273 
    274 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
    275 		iy0		0x360	any
    276 
    277 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
    278 		fxp0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    279 					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    280 
    281 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
    282 		sm0	0x300	10
    283 
    284 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    285 		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    286 		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    287 
    288 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
    289 		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
    290 		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
    291 
    292 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
    293 		lc0 	any  	any
    294