NetBSD/distrib/notes/pc532/hardware
1999-01-13 07:30:01 +00:00

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.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.6 1999/01/13 07:30:07 ross Exp $
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NetBSD/pc532 \*V runs on a
.Tn PC532
computer. It supports a subset of the
.Dq standard
hardware to date. This is defined as:
.Bl -bullet
.It
4 - MB of memory
.It
8 serial lines done by 4 scn2681 chips
.It
the NCR DP8490 SCSI chip (scsi only)
.Bl -hyphen
.It
Most SCSI disks work (fixed and floppy)
.It
A few SCSI tapes work
.It
Some SCSI CD-ROM drives work
.El
.It
The Matthias Pfaller Parallel Port.
.El
.Pp
NetBSD/pc532 currently expects the ROM monitor to be the "autoboot
monitor" of Oct/Nov 1991. It includes support to set up auto booting
of NetBSD, including a secondary boot program that the autoboot monitor
will load that in turn loads the NetBSD kernel from a NetBSD file system.
Source and ROM images of the autoboot monitor are located at
.Lk ftp://ftp.cs.wwu.edu/pub/pc532/mon.auto.tar.gz
.Pp
Most of the pc532 specific development of NetBSD/pc532 was done on a
machine with 8 MB of memory. It should run with 4 MB of memory
although it may be slower.