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$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.3 1998/01/09 18:45:33 perry Exp $
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NetBSD/alpha _VER runs on the following DEC Alpha platforms:
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DEC 3000/500-family systems
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DEC 3000/300-family systems
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Digital AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, and 400 systems
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Digital AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems
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Digital AXPpci systems (including UDB and Multia)
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EB64+-family systems (including Digital EB64+ and third-party
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AlphaPC 64 systems)
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EB164-family systems (including Digital EB164 and third-party
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AlphaPC 164 systems)
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Digital AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems
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If your system is not listed here, it is not supported in this release,
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but may be supported in more current versions of NetBSD. Check the
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alpha port web pages at <http://www.netbsd.org/> for the most recent
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information on this, or ask on the alpha mailing list,
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<port-alpha@netbsd.org>.
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NetBSD/alpha requires the Digital Unix PALcode, which basically means
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that you need to have the SRM console installed on your machine. This
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console can be distinguished from the ARC console (which is used to
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boot Windows NT) by the fact that it has a command line interface,
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rather than a menu-driven interface.
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A basic system will fit on a 200 MB disk (including swap) without too
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much difficulty, but you will probably want at least 500 MB of disk
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to have any level of comfort. You will also need at least 32 MB of
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RAM, and you will probably want more than that if you're running X.
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We support add-in devices on the PCI, ISA, EISA and TurboChannel buses.
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Because NetBSD has an extremely machine-independent device driver
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system, many device drivers are the same as used in other ports that
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use the same bus. For example, the de network card driver is shared
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by the i386 and Alpha ports. Some drivers on inspection appear as if
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they will work on the alpha but have not been tested because that
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hardware was not available to NetBSD testers; these are marked as
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`UNTESTED' below. If you have one of these devices, and it does work,
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please get in touch with <port-alpha-maintainer@netbsd.org> and let
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us know that it works. If it doesn't work, do the same thing and we
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can probably fix it pretty easily.
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Supported devices by bus type are:
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PCI Bus
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Graphics Adapters
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VGA-compatible video (pcivga)
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ZLXp-E1 video (DECchip 21030-based video, tga, NOTE: ZLXp-E2
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and ZLXp-E3 boards are not supported in NetBSD _VER.))
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Network Cards
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DECchip 21x40-family 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (de)
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DEC DEFPA FDDI (fpa)
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PCI LANCE Ethernet (le, UNTESTED)
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Efficient Networks ENI-155p ATM (en, UNTESTED)
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3Com 3c59x and 3c90x (except 3c906) 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (ep)
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Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B PCI Ethernet (fxp, UNTESTED)
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SCSI Controllers
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Adaptec 294x, 394x, and aic78x0 SCSI (ahc)
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BusLogic 9xx SCSI (bha, Works on Alpha PC164)
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Qlogic ISP 10x0-family SCSI (isp)
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NCR/Symbios 53c8xx-family SCSI (ncr, NCR825 Doesn't always work)
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Miscellaneous Devices
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Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial boards (cy, UNTESTED)
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PCI-PCI bridges (ppb, tested with the DECchip 21050, but should
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work with all bridges and system firmware revisions that
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comply with the PCI-PCI bridge specification)
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ISA Bus
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Network Cards
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3Com 3c509 Ethernet (ep)
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Miscellaneous Devices
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PC-style parallel ports (lpt)
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NS16450 and NS16550 UARTs (com)
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ISA multi-port 16x50 boards (such as ast, boca--only boca has
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been tested)
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EISA Bus
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Network Cards
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DEC DEFEA FDDI (fea)
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3Com 3c5xx series (ed, UNTESTED)
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SCSI Controllers
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Adaptec 274x and aic7770 SCSI (ahc, UNTESTED)
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BusLogic 7xx SCSI (bha, UNTESTED)
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Turbochannel Bus
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Graphics Adapters
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CFB video (PMAG-BA, cfb)
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SFB video (PMAGB-BA, sfb)
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(Note that although these boards are supported by NetBSD/alpha,
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since there is no keyboard or mouse support available for the
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TurboChannel systems, they aren't very useful.)
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Network Cards
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DEC LANCE Ethernet (PMAD-AA, le, UNTESTED)
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DEC DEFTA FDDI (PMAF-F, fta)
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Note that PC-style floppy disk drives are not supported in 1.3
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(except to boot from), but are supported to some degree in
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NetBSD-current.
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Note that some devices, especially ISA-based devices, have to have
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certain settings set properly for the install and GENERIC kernels to
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detect them. (Once installed, you can always rebuild your own kernel
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to detect them anywhere you wish, of course.) Here is a list of such
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devices and the necessary settings:
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Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
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------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
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Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
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com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
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com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
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Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
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lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
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lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
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AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
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ahb0 any any any
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AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
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ahc0 any any any
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Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
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bha0 0x330 any any
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bha1 0x334 any any
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MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
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wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
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wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
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ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
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SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
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SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
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SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
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For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
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present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
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master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
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be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
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3COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
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ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
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PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
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Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
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fxp0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
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PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
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