hardware revision 1.9 
1NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
2with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
3does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
4minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
5space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
6this minimal today.  To install the entire system requires much more
7disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
8requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
9etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
10(4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
11won't be speedy.  Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
12more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
13
14Supported devices include:
15	Floppy controllers.
16	MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
17	SCSI host adapters:
18		Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF 
19		Adaptec AHA-174x
20		Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
21			the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
22			host adapter.  (Note that you cannot boot from
23			these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
24			only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
25			are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
26		Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
27			using the AIC78X0 chip.  There is a known problem
28			using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or
29			AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple
30			targets, due to resource contention which is not
31			handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
32		Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
33		Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
34		BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
35			of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
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)
43			ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
44			DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
45			Lomas Data SCSI adapters
46			NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
47				      of these cards have a jumper to set
48				      the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
49			Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
50				       the SYM 8125)
51			Tyan Yorktown
52		Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
53		Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
54		[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
55		 floppies.]
56
57	MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not
58		all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
59		are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more
60		information.)
61	Serial ports:
62		8250/16450-based ports
63		16550/16650/16750-based ports
64		AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
65		BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 
66		IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
67		Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
68	Parallel ports.
69	Ethernet adapters:
70		AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
71			Novell NE1500T
72			Novell NE2100
73			Kingston 21xx
74		AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
75			Addtron AE-350
76			BOCALANcard/PCI
77			SVEC FD0455
78			X/Lan Add-On Adapter
79			IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
80		AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
81		3COM 3c501
82		3COM 3c503
83		3COM 3c505 [*]
84		3COM 3c507
85		3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
86		Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
87			Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
88			Cogent EM964 [b]
89			Cogent EM4XX [b]
90			Compex Readylink PCI
91			DANPEX EN-9400P3
92			Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
93			Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
94			JCIS Condor JC1260
95			Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
96                        SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
97                        SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
98			SVEC PN0455
99			SVEC FD1000-TP
100                        Znyx ZX34X
101		BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
102		Intel EtherExpress 16
103		Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
104		SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
105		SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
106		Novell NE1000, NE2000
107	FDDI adapters:
108		Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
109		Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
110	Tape drives:
111		Most SCSI tape drives
112		QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
113			compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
114	CD-ROM drives:
115		Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
116			[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 
117			to cause trouble with several devices!]
118		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
119	Mice:
120		"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
121		"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
122		"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
123		Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
124	Sound Cards:
125		SoundBlaster [*] [+]
126		Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
127			(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
128			[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
129		Personal Sound System [*] [+]
130		Windows Sound System [*] [+]
131		ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
132	Miscellaneous:
133		APM power management
134
135Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
136distribution floppies.  Except as noted above, all drivers are present
137on all disks.  Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
138support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.  NetBSD normally
139allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
140them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
141
142
143Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
144although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
145
146Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
147bridging on your motherboard.  Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
148have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
149
150Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
151about:
152	AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
153				       PCnet-SCSI works fine)
154        Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
155        Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should
156                run fine using one processor only.)
157        NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
158	PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
159	PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
160	 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
161	  FTP sites]
162	QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives
163		that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
164
165We are planning future support for many of these devices.
166
167To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
168be configured as follows:
169
170Device		Name	Port	IRQ	DRQ	Misc
171------		----	----	---	---	----
172Serial ports	com0	0x3f8	4		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
173		com1	0x2f8	3		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
174		com2	0x3e8	5		[8250/16450/16550/clones]
175
176Parallel ports	lpt0	0x378	7		[interrupt-driven or polling]
177		lpt1	0x278			[polling only]
178		lpt2	0x3bc			[polling only]
179
180MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller
181		wdc0	0x1f0	14		[supports two disks]
182
183Floppy controller
184		fdc0	0x3f0	6	2	[supports two disks]
185
186AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
187		aha0	0x330	any	any
188		aha1	0x334	any	any
189
190AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
191		ahb0	any	any	any
192
193AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
194                aic0    0x340   11      6
195
196AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
197                ahc0    any     any     any
198
199Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
200		bt0	0x330	any	any
201		bt1	0x334	any	any
202
203Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
204		ncr0	any	any	any
205
206Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
207                uha0    0x330   any     any
208		uha1	0x334	any	any
209
210Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
211		wds0	0x350	15	6
212		wds1	0x358	11	5
213
214SCSI disks	sd0	first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
215		sd1	second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
216		sd2	third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
217		sd3	fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
218
219SCSI tapes	st0	first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
220		st1	second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
221
222SCSI CD-ROMs	cd0	first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
223		cd1	second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
224
225SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
226Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
227		ed0	0x280	2		iomem 0xd0000
228		ed1	0x250	2		iomem 0xd8000
229		ed2	0x300	10		iomem 0xcc000
230
2313COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
232		ep0	any	any
233
2343COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
235		ep0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
236					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
237
238AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
239EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
240		ie0	0x360	7		iomem 0xd0000
241		ie1	0x300	10		iomem 0xd0000
242
243PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
244		le0	any	any	[you must assign an interrupt in your
245					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
246
247DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
248		de0	any	any 	[you must assign an interrupt in your
249					 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
250