NetBSD/distrib/notes/prep/hardware

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.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.4 2006/09/07 07:49:12 garbled Exp $
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.Pp
The minimum configuration requires 16 MB of RAM and 60 MB of disk space.
To install the entire system requires about 250 MB (not including swap).
.Nx
works with about 32 MB or RAM, but at least 64 MB is advised, especially
on the slower processors.
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.Ss2 Supported machines
.Pp
In general NetBSD/\*M should run on any PowerPC machine with fully
PReP-compliant firmware. This includes most Motorola machines with
PPCBUG firmware.
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IBM
.(bullet -compact
Model 6015 or 7020 (40P)
.It
Model 6040 (Thinkpad 820)
.It
Model 6050 or 6070 (Power Series 830)
.It
Model 7248 (43P/100, 43P/120 and 43P/133)
.It
Model 7043 (43P-140)
.It
Model 7024 (E20 and E30)
.It
Model 7025 (F30 and F40)
.bullet)
.It
Motorola
.(bullet -compact
Motorola Ultra 603
.It
Motorola Ultra Plus
.It
Motorola Powerstack E1
.bullet)
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.Ss2 Machines not supported by NetBSD/\*M
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IBM
.(bullet -compact
Model 7043 (43P-150)
.It
Model 7025 (F50)
.It
Model 7026 (All)
.It
Any POWER or POWER2 RS/6000 machines
.It
Any of the newer p-Series or 64bit PPC machines
.bullet)
Motorola
.(bullet -compact
MPC750 (In-progress)
.It
MVMEPPC boards (Possibly works, untested yet)
.bullet)
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.Ss2 Supported devices
.Pp
.Nx
supports most of the hardware that shipped on these systems through the
machine-independent device drivers. There are a few notable exceptions, listed
below:
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.Ss2 Unsupported devices
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Floppy disk controller
.It
IBM SSA controllers
.It
IBM Escon adapters
.It
X server
.It
Front panel LED and LCD devices
.It
Keyswitch devices
.bullet)