NetBSD/distrib/notes/arm26/hardware

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.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.5 2001/01/08 16:15:39 bjh21 Exp $
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.Nx*M
\*V should support all common Acorn machines fitted with
ARM2, ARM3 and ARM250 CPUs. This includes all Archimedes systems
(except for the A500 and A680 prototypes),
all R-series workstations, the BBC A3000,
the A5000, A4, A3010, A3020 and A4000.
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.Ss2 Supported devices
.(bullet -offset indent
Memory
.(bullet -compact
8 MB of RAM.
4 MB systems should work, but tend to run out of memory very easily.
.bullet)
.It
On-board video
.Pq Em arcvideo
.It
Standard keyboard and mouse
.Pq Em arckbd
.It
Expansion Cards (AKA
.Dq podules ) .
.(bullet -compact
Acorn AKA25 Ethernet (Ether1,
.Em ei )
.It
Atomwide Ethernet III (Ether3,
.Em ea )
.It
i-cubed EtherLan 100-, 200- and 500-series (EtherH,
.Em eh )
.bullet)
.Pp
.Em "New machines (A5000, A4, A3010, A3020 and A4000)"
.Em "may support the following, but this is mostly untested"
.It
On-board IDE controller
.Pq Em wdc
.It
Serial port
.Pq Em com
.It
Parallel port
.Pq Em lpt
.bullet)
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.Pp
.Nx*M
uses the machine's ROM OS to boot, and hence depends slightly on it.
It's been tested with RISC OS 3.10 and RISC OS 3.11, and should work
with other versions of RISC OS as well.
It hasn't been tested with Arthur at all.