NetBSD/distrib/notes/i386/hardware

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NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It
does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The
minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M 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 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
(4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
Supported devices include:
Floppy controllers.
MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
SCSI host adapters:
Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
Adaptec AHA-174x
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from
these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
using the AIC78X0 chip. There is a known problem
using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or
AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple
targets, due to resource contention which is not
handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
ST01/02
Future Domain TMC-885
Future Domain TMC-950
Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
Acculogic PCIpport
ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard)
ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
Lomas Data SCSI adapters
NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
of these cards have a jumper to set
the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
the SYM 8125)
Tyan Yorktown
Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
[NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
floppies.]
MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
information.)
Serial ports:
8250/16450-based ports
16550/16650/16750-based ports
AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
Parallel ports.
Ethernet adapters:
AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
Novell NE1500T
Novell NE2100
Kingston 21xx
AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
Addtron AE-350
BOCALANcard/PCI
SVEC FD0455
X/Lan Add-On Adapter
IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
3COM 3c501
3COM 3c503
3COM 3c505 [*]
3COM 3c507
3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
Cogent EM964 [b]
Cogent EM4XX [b]
Compex Readylink PCI
DANPEX EN-9400P3
Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
JCIS Condor JC1260
Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
SVEC PN0455
SVEC FD1000-TP
Znyx ZX34X
BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
Intel EtherExpress 16
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
Novell NE1000, NE2000
FDDI adapters:
Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
Tape drives:
Most SCSI tape drives
QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
CD-ROM drives:
Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
to cause trouble with several devices!]
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
Mice:
"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
Sound Cards:
SoundBlaster [*] [+]
Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
(But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
Personal Sound System [*] [+]
Windows Sound System [*] [+]
ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
Miscellaneous:
APM power management
Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present
on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally
allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
about:
AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
PCnet-SCSI works fine)
Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should
run fine using one processor only.)
NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
[Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
FTP sites]
QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
We are planning future support for many of these devices.
To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:
Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks]
Floppy controller
fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
aha0 0x330 any any
aha1 0x334 any any
AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
ahb0 any any any
AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
aic0 0x340 11 6
AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
ahc0 any any any
Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bt0 0x330 any any
bt1 0x334 any any
Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
ncr0 any any any
Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
uha0 0x330 any any
uha1 0x334 any any
Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
wds0 0x350 15 6
wds1 0x358 11 5
SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000
ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000
ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
ep0 any any
3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000
PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]