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.Nx*M
\*V runs on Acorn systems with
.Tn ARM6
or later processors,
with or without FPU coprocessor. The minimal configuration is said to
require 8 MB of RAM and 50 MB of disk space, though we do not know of anyone
running with a system quite this minimal today. To install the entire
system requires much more disk space (the unpacked binary distribution,
without sources, requires at least 65 MB without counting space needed for
swap space, etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is
recommended. (8 MB of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile,
but it won't be speedy. 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
RiscPC/A7000(+) floppy controller
.It
IDE controllers
.(bullet -compact
Acorn motherboard IDE
.It
Simtec IDE controller
.It
RapIDE Issue 2 IDE controller
.It
ICS V5 & V6 IDE controller
.bullet)
.It
SCSI host adapters
.(bullet -compact
Cumana SCSI 2
.It
PowerTec SCSI 2
.It
MCS Connect32 SCSI 2
.It
Acorn SCSI
.It
Oak SCSI I
.It
Morley SCSI I (uncached only)
.bullet)
.It
VIDC20 video
.It
RiscPC Motherboard serial port
.It
RiscPC Motherboard parallel port
.It
Ethernet adapters
.(bullet -compact
Acorn Ether1
.It
Atomwide Ether3
.It
ANT Ether3
.It
ANT Ether5
.It
Atomwide EtherA
.It
ANT EtherB
.It
Acorn EtherH
.It
I-cubed EtherH
.It
ANT EtherM
.bullet)
.It
Most SCSI disk drives
.It
Most SCSI tape drives
.It
CD-ROM drives
.(bullet -compact
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
.It
Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives
.(Note
Some low-priced IDE CD-ROM drives are known for being not or not fully
ATAPI compliant, and thus requires some hack (generally an entry to a
quirk table) to work with
.Nx .
.Note)
.bullet)
.It
Mice
.(bullet -compact
RiscPC quadrature mouse
.It
A7000 PS/2 mouse
.bullet)
.It
Processors
.(bullet -compact
ARM 610
.It
ARM 700
.It
ARM 700 + FPA11
.It
ARM 710
.It
ARM 7500
.It
ARM 7500FE
.It
ARM 810. [*]
.It
SA110
.bullet)
.It
Motherboards
.(bullet -compact
Acorn RiscPC
.It
Acorn A7000
.It
Acorn A7000+
.bullet)
.It
Other devices
.(bullet -compact
RiscPC keyboard
.It
A7000 keyboard
.It
RiscPC realtime clock
.bullet)
.bullet)
.Pp
Drivers for hardware marked with
.Dq [*]
are
.Em not
present in installation kernels.
.Pp
Support for some devices is limited to particular kernels. eg there is no
SA110 support in A7000 kernels.
.
.Ss2 Unsupported devices
.(bullet -offset indent -compact
Acorn/Aleph1 PC cards
.It
Any SCSI card using a PowerROM
.It
Podule based serial ports
.It
Castle SCSI/Ethernet cards
.bullet)
.Pp
Drivers are planned for some of the above devices.