hardware revision 1.34 
1	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.34 1998/07/12 20:14:30 augustss 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 (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	USB (Universal Serial Bus): [*] [+]
165		UHCI and OHCI host controllers.
166		Hubs.
167		Mice, keyboards, and other HID devices.
168		Printers.
169	Miscellaneous:
170		Advanced power management (APM) [*]
171
172Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
173distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
174on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
175support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
176allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
177them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
178
179Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
180although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
181
182Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
183bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
184have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
185
186Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
187about:
188	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
189					PCnet-SCSI works fine)
190	Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
191		run fine using one processor only.)
192	NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
193	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
194	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
195		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
196
197We are planning future support for many of these devices.
198
199To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
200be configured as follows:
201
202Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
203------		----	----	---	---	----
204Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
205		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
206		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
207
208Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
209		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
210		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
211
212Floppy controller
213		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
214
215AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
216		aha0	0x330	any	any
217		aha1	0x334	any	any
218
219AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
220		ahb0	any  	any	any
221
222AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
223		aic0	0x340	11	6
224
225AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
226		ahc0	any  	any any
227
228BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
229		bha0 	0x330	any	any
230		bha1 	0x334	any	any
231
232Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
233		ncr0	any  	any	any
234
235Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
236		uha0	0x330	any	any
237		uha1	0x340	any	any
238
239Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
240		wds0	0x350	15	6
241		wds1	0x358	11	5
242
243MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
244		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two devices]
245		wdc1	0x170	15		[supports two devices]
246
247ATA disks	wd0, wd1, ...
248SCSI disks	sd0, sd1, ...
249SCSI tapes	st0, st1, ...
250SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
251	For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
252	present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
253	master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
254	be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
255
2563Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
257		ec0	0x250	9		iomem 0xd8000
258
259Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
260		ne0 	0x280	9
261		ne1 	0x300	10
262
263SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
264		we0	0x280 	9		iomem 0xd0000
265		we1	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
266
2673COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
268		ep0 	any  	any
269
2703COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
271		ep0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
272		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
273
274AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
275EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
276		ie0 	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
277		ie1 	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
278
279Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
280		iy0		0x360	any
281
282Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
283		fxp0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
284					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
285
286SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
287		sm0	0x300	10
288
289PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
290		le0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
291		    	    	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
292
293DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
294		de0 	any  	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
295		    	     	   	 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
296
297Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
298		lc0 	any  	any
299