. .Ss2 Supported machines .(bullet -offset indent sun4c (e.g. the SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPC, ELC, IPX, and SLC) t sun4 (e.g. the 4/100, 4/200, and 4/300. Note that support for the 4/400 processor is incomplete) t sun4m (e.g. Classic, LX, SS4, SS5, SS10, and SS20) .bullet) . .Ss2 Unsupported machines .(bullet -offset indent sun-4/400 (lacking support for the I/O cache, and has ethernet problems) t sun4d (e.g. SPARCcenter 1000 and SPARCcenter 2000) t sun4u and other UltraSPARC based machines.
p There is a separate sparc64 port for these machines. Refer to .Lk http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/index.html .bullet)
p The minimal configuration requires 4 MB of RAM and ~60 MB of disk space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended, as .Nx with 4 MB of RAM feels like Solaris with 4 MB of RAM - slow. Note that until you have around 16 MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU. . .Ss2 Supported devices .(bullet -offset indent sun4c/sun4m sbus video .(bullet -compact cgsix, cgthree, and bwtwo frame buffers t cgfourteen and tcx frame buffers (limited .Dq emulation mode) .bullet) t sun4 video (not thoroughly tested?) .(bullet -compact P4 on-board bwtwo t VME cgtwo card .bullet) t Serial ports .(bullet -compact ttya and ttyb (can be used as console if needed) .bullet) t Ethernet .(bullet -compact On-board AMD Lance ethernet ("le0"), t Sbus AMD Lance ethernet cards, t On-board Intel 82586 ethernet (ie0 on 4/100's and 4/200's), t VME Intel 82586 ethernet cards .bullet) t SCSI .(bullet -compact On-board "esp" SCSI controller (sun4c, sun4m and the 4/300), t Sbus "esp" SCSI controller, t Sun "SUN-3"/"si" VME SCSI controller (polled mode only, slow), t Sun "SCSI Weird"/"sw" on-board controller (4/110 only, polled) .bullet) t VME disks .(bullet -compact Xylogics 7053 VME/SMD disk controller ("xd"), t Xylogics 450/451 VME disk controller ("xy") t .(Note VME/IPI disks are not supported .Note) .bullet) t Sun floppy disk drive t Sun keyboard and mouse t sun4c audio t sun4m audio on Sparcstation Classic .bullet) . .Ss2 Unsupported devices .(bullet -offset indent Multi-processor sun4m machines t audio drivers for sun4m machines (other than the Sparcstation Classic) t Interrupt driven SCSI driver for sun-4/100's and sun-4/200's .bullet)
Indexes created Wed Oct 22 13:09:56 GMT 2025