hardware revision 1.6
1NetBSD/sparc RELEASE runs on the following classes of machines: 2 - sun4c (e.g. the SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPC, ELC, IPX, and SLC) 3 - sun4 (e.g. the 4/100, 4/200, and 4/300. note that support 4 for the 4/400 processor is incomplete) 5 - sun4m (e.g. Classic, LX, SS4, SS5, SS10, and SS20) 6 7NetBSD/sparc RELEASE does *not* run on these machines (yet): 8 - sun-4/400 (lacking support for the I/O cache, and has 9 ethernet problems) 10 - sun4d (e.g. sparc center 2000) 11 - sun4u (e.g. Ultrasparcs) 12 13The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and ~60M of disk space. 14To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run 15X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (NetBSD with 4M of 16RAM feels like Solaris with 4M of RAM.) Note that until you have 17around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a 18faster CPU.) 19 20Supported devices include: 21 sun4c sbus video: 22 cgsix, cgthree, and bwtwo frame buffers 23 sun4 video (not thoroughly tested?): 24 P4 on-board bwtwo, and VME cgtwo card 25 serial ports: 26 ttya and ttyb (can be used as console if needed) 27 ethernet: 28 on-board AMD Lance ethernet ("le0"), 29 Sbus AMD Lance ethernet cards, 30 on-board Intel 82586 ethernet (ie0 on 4/100's and 4/200's), 31 VME Intel 82586 ethernet cards 32 SCSI: 33 on-board "esp" SCSI controller (sun4c's, and the 4/300), 34 sbus "esp" SCSI controller, 35 Sun "SUN-3"/"si" VME SCSI controller (polled mode only, slow), 36 Sun "SCSI Weird"/"sw" on-board controller (4/110 only, polled) 37 VME disks: 38 Xylogics 7053 VME/SMD disk controller ("xd"), 39 Xylogics 450/451 VME disk controller ("xy") 40 [note: VME/IPI disks are not supported] 41 sun floppy disk drive on sun4c's 42 sun keyboard and mouse 43 sun4c audio 44 45 46Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions 47about: 48 multiprocessor sun4m machines 49 audio drivers for sun4m machines 50 floppy driver for sun4m machines 51 interrupt driven SCSI driver for sun-4/100's and sun-4/200's 52 53