hardware revision 1.4
1 1.4 perry $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.4 1998/01/09 18:47:11 perry Exp $ 2 1.4 perry 3 1.3 mhitch NetBSD/pmax _VER runs on the following classes of machines: 4 1.2 jonathan - Decstation 2100 and 3100, also known as "pmin" and "pmax" 5 1.3 mhitch - Personal Decstations (5000/20, and /25) also known as "MAXINE" 6 1.3 mhitch - Decstation 5000/120, /125, and /133, also known as "3MIN" 7 1.3 mhitch - Decstation 5000/200, also known as "3MAX" 8 1.3 mhitch - Decstation 5000/240, als known as "3MAXPLUS" 9 1.1 jonathan 10 1.3 mhitch NetBSD/pmax _VER does *not* (yet) run on these machines: 11 1.1 jonathan - Decstation 5100 (an r2000-based cousin of the Decstation 3100) 12 1.1 jonathan - Decsystem 5400 and 5500 (Qbus-based systems, similar to 13 1.1 jonathan a Vax 'Mayfair' and 'Mayfair II', but with an r2000a or r3000 14 1.1 jonathan cpu instead of a CVAX cpu.) 15 1.2 jonathan - Decsystem 5800 (xbi-based multiprocessor, a Vax 8800 with 16 1.2 jonathan Vax CPU boards replaced with Mips cpu boards) 17 1.1 jonathan 18 1.1 jonathan The minimal configuration requires 8M of RAM and ~60M of disk space. 19 1.1 jonathan To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run 20 1.1 jonathan X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (NetBSD with 8M of 21 1.2 jonathan RAM feels like Ultrix with 8M of RAM.) Note that until you have 22 1.1 jonathan around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a 23 1.2 jonathan faster CPU. 24 1.1 jonathan 25 1.1 jonathan Supported devices include: 26 1.1 jonathan Decstation 2100 and 3100 baseboard video: 27 1.1 jonathan pm one-bit mono or 8-bit pseudocolour fraem buffers. 28 1.1 jonathan 29 1.1 jonathan Decstation 5000 series TurboChannel video: 30 1.1 jonathan PMAG-DV Personal Decstation baseboard 1024x768 frame buffer. 31 1.1 jonathan PMAG-BA 1024x768 8-bit colour frame buffer. 32 1.1 jonathan PMAGB-BA 1024x768 8-bit colour frame buffer. 33 1.1 jonathan PMAG-AA 1280x1024 four-bit greyscale frame buffer. 34 1.1 jonathan 35 1.1 jonathan NOTE: All supported DECstation vide produces sync-on-green. 36 1.1 jonathan Be sure to use either a DEC-compatible fixed-sync monitor 37 1.1 jonathan or a multisync monitor that supports sync-on-green. 38 1.1 jonathan 39 1.1 jonathan serial ports: 40 1.1 jonathan ttya and ttyb (can be used as console if needed) 41 1.1 jonathan 42 1.1 jonathan ethernet: 43 1.1 jonathan on-board AMD Lance ethernet ("le0"), 44 1.2 jonathan TURBOchannel AMD Lance ethernet cards. 45 1.1 jonathan 46 1.1 jonathan SCSI: 47 1.1 jonathan on-board DEC "sii" SCSI controller (2100 and 3100) 48 1.1 jonathan on-board "asc" SCSI controller (5000 series machines) 49 1.1 jonathan TurboChannel "asc" SCSI controller, 50 1.2 jonathan DEC (LK-201 or compatible) keyboard 51 1.2 jonathan DEC ("hockey puck" or compatible) mouse. 52 1.1 jonathan 53 1.1 jonathan 54 1.1 jonathan Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get questions 55 1.1 jonathan about from time to time: 56 1.1 jonathan Q-bus Decsystem machines 57 1.1 jonathan Decstation 5100 machines 58 1.1 jonathan PrestoServe NVRAM on Decstation 5100 machines 59 1.1 jonathan audio drivers for Personal Decstation machines 60 1.1 jonathan floppy driver for Personal Decstation machines 61 1.1 jonathan TurboChannel audio hardware (LoFi) 62 1.2 jonathan PMAG-C 2-D accelerated framebuffers with onboard i860 processors 63 1.1 jonathan 64 1.1 jonathan NOTE: the primary obstacle to support of all but the very 65 1.1 jonathan last item is non-availability of sample hardware for development. 66 1.2 jonathan 67 1.2 jonathan The primary obstacle for the i860-based framebuffers is that there 68 1.1 jonathan is no documentation on the accelerator board. 69
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