Module Name: src
Committed By: nia
Date: Sun Feb 20 09:40:07 UTC 2022
Modified Files:
src/distrib/notes/i386: hardware
Log Message:
Be less optimistic about i386 system reqirements. Remove extremely outdated
list of support devices.
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Index: src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware
diff -u src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware:1.127 src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware:1.128
--- src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware:1.127 Sat Nov 13 10:11:43 2010
+++ src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware Sun Feb 20 09:40:07 2022
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.127 2010/11/13 10:11:43 jnemeth Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.128 2022/02/20 09:40:07 nia Exp $
.
.Nx
\*V
runs on all i486 or later PC-compatible systems with 1 to 32 processors.
-The minimal configuration for a full, standard installation is 32MB of RAM
-and 250MB of disk space.
+The minimal configuration for a full, standard installation is 64MB of RAM
+and 2GB of disk space.
.Pp
NetBSD requires a numeric co-processor.
The target system must
@@ -16,680 +16,7 @@ an i486SX with an i487 numeric co-proces
.It
a Pentium compatible or later processor
.bullet)
-On systems with under 32MB of memory, a custom
-installation of NetBSD can be performed manually.
-That procedure is not documented here.
-.
-.Ss2 Supported devices
-Explanation of bracketed footnote tags [] follows this listing.
-.(bullet -offset indent
-.Te 2 "Floppy controllers."
-.It
-.Te 2 "MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers"
-.br
-There is complete support (including IDE DMA or Ultra-DMA) for the following
-PCI controllers
-.(bullet -compact
-Acard ATA-850 and 860 based IDE Controllers
-.It
-Acer labs M5229 IDE Controller
-.It
-Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, 766, and 768 IDE Controllers
-.It
-CMD Tech PCI0643, 0646, 0648, and 0649 IDE Controllers
-.It
-Contaq Microsystems/Cypress CY82C693 IDE Controller
-.It
-HighPoint HPT366, HPT370, HPT372, and HPT374.
-.It
-IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controllers [m]
-.It
-Intel PIIX, PIIX3, and PIIX4 IDE Controllers
-.It
-Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6/ICH7/ICH8/ICH9) IDE/SATA Controllers
-.It
-Promise PDC20246 (Ultra/33), PDC20262 (Ultra/66), PDC20265/PDC20267 (Ultra/100),
-PDC20268 (Ultra/100TX2 and Ultra/100TX2v2), Ultra/133, Ultra/133TX2,
-and Ultra/133TX2v2.
-.It
-Promise SATA150 serial-ATA controllers: PDC20318, PDC20319, PDC20371,
-PDC20375, PDC20376, PDC20377, PDC20378 and PDC20379.
-.It
-Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 IDE controller
-.It
-VIA Technologies VT82C586, VT82C586A, VT82C596A, VT82C686A, and VT8233A IDE
-Controllers
-.It
-Silicon Image SATALink controllers
-.It
-Silicon Image SteelVine SATA controllers [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.Pp
-Most of these controllers are only available in multifunction PCI chips.
-Other PCI IDE controllers are supported, but performance may not be optimal.
-ISA, ISA Plug and Play and PCMCIA IDE controllers are supported as well.
-.It
-.Te 2 "SCSI host adapters"
-.(bullet -compact
-Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-1640 cards (MCA variant of AHA-1540) [m]
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-174x
-.It
-Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-152x,
-Adaptec APA-1460 (PCMCIA) and APA-1480 (CardBus), and the SoundBlaster
-SCSI host adapter.
-.(Note
-You cannot boot from these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
-consequently only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip are
-likely to be bootable.
-.Note)
-.Pp
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-2910, 2915, 2920, and 2930C adapters.
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][2][W] cards and onboard PCI designs using the AIC-7770,
-AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870, AIC-7880 and AIC-789x chipsets.
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-394x[U][W] cards [b]
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-3950U2 cards
-.It
-Adaptec AHA-3960, 19160, and 29160 Ultra-160 adapters
-.It
-AdvanSys ABP-9x0[U][A] cards
-.It
-AdvanSys ABP-940UW[68], ABP-970UW[68], and ASB3940UW-00 cards
-.It
-AMD PCscsi-PCI (Am53c974) based SCSI adapters, including Tekram DC-390
-.It
-BusLogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
-.It
-BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (but not the new
-.Sq FlashPoint
-series of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
-.It
-Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
-.It
-Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards
-.(bullet -compact
-ST01/02
-.It
-Future Domain TMC-885
-.It
-Future Domain TMC-950
-.bullet)
-.It
-Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters
-.(bullet -compact
-Acculogic PCIpport
-.It
-ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to boot from disks)
-.It
-ASUS SC-875
-.It
-ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
-.It
-.Tn DEC
-Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
-.It
-Diamond FirePort 40
-.It
-Lomas Data SCSI adapters
-.It
-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!)
-.It
-Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of the SYM 8125)
-.It
-Tekram DC-390U/F
-.It
-Tyan Yorktown
-.bullet)
-.It
-Symbios Logic (NCR) 5380/53C400-based ISA SCSI host adapters [*]
-.It
-Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
-.It
-Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters (ISA cards only)
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters"
-.(Note
-Not all of the display adapters
-.Nx*M
-can work with are supported by X.
-See the NetBSD Guide chapter on X for more information:
-.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html
-.Note)
-.Pp
-.It
-.Te 2 "Serial ports"
-.(bullet -compact
-8250/16450-based ports
-.It
-16550/16650/16750-based ports
-.It
-AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
-.It
-BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
-.It
-BOCA 6-port (ioat) serial cards [*]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
-.It
-TCOM TC-400 (4-port), TC-800 (8-port) serial cards [*]
-.It
-Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
-.It
-Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial cards [*] [+]
-.It
-Addonics FlexPort 8S 8-port serial cards [*]
-.It
-Byte Runner Technologies TC-400 and TC-800 serial cards [*]
-.It
-PCI universal communication cards
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Parallel ports."
-[*] [+]
-.It
-.Te 2 "Ethernet adapters"
-.(bullet -compact
-Agere/LSI ET1310/ET1301 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
-.bullet)
-.(bullet -compact
-AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*]
-.(bullet -compact
-Novell NE1500T
-.It
-Novell NE2100
-.It
-Kingston 21xx
-.It
-Digital EtherWORKS II ISA adapters (DE200/DE201/DE202)
-.bullet)
-.It
-AMD LANCE and PCnet-based MCA Ethernet adapters [m]
-.(bullet -compact
-SKNET Personal
-.It
-SKNET MC+
-.bullet)
-.It
-AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters
-.(bullet -compact
-Addtron AE-350
-.It
-BOCALANcard/PCI
-.It
-SVEC FD0455
-.It
-X/Lan Add-On Adapter
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-#13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
-.bullet)
-.It
-AT\*[Am]T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
-.It
-Attansic/Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet card
-.It
-3COM 3c501
-.It
-3COM 3c503
-.It
-3COM 3c505 [*]
-.It
-3COM 3c507
-.It
-3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, and 3c59X
-.It
-3COM 3c523 EtherLink/MC [m]
-.It
-3COM 3c529 EtherLink III [m]
-.It
-3COM 3c90X (including 3c905B), 3c450, 3c55X, 3c575, 3c980, 3cSOHO100
-.It
-.ne 4
-Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters
-.(bullet -compact
-Accton EN2242
-.It
-ASUS PCI-DEC100TX+
-.It
-Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
-.It
-Cogent EM964 [b]
-.It
-Cogent EM4XX [b]
-.It
-Compex Readylink PCI
-.It
-DANPEX EN-9400P3
-.It
-Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
-.It
-.Tn DEC
-.Pq Tn Digital
-PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
-.It
-DLINK DFE500-TX
-.It
-JCIS Condor JC1260
-.It
-JMicron Technologies JMC250/JMC260 controllers [*] [+]
-.It
-Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
-.It
-SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
-.It
-SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
-.It
-Sundance ST-201 based ethernet adapters (including DLINK DFE550-TX and
-DFE580-TX)
-.It
-SVEC PN0455
-.It
-SVEC FD1000-TP
-.It
-Znyx ZX34X
-.bullet)
-.It
-Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205) [*]
-.It
-Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compatible cards
-.It
-BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
-.It
-Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM interfaces
-.It
-Essential Communications Hippi (800 Mbit/s)
-.It
-Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards
-.(bullet -compact
-Fujitsu FMV-180 series
-.It
-Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
-.It
-Allied-Telesis AT1700 series MCA [m]
-.It
-Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
-.bullet)
-.It
-Intel EtherExpress 16
-.It
-Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
-.It
-Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
-.It
-Intel Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
-.It
-Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
-.It
-Realtek 8129/8139 based boards
-.It
-Realtek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S based boards
-.It
-SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC
-.Sq Elite16
-ISA boards
-.It
-SMC/WD 8003, 8013 and IBM PS/2 Adapter/A MCA boards [m]
-.It
-SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC
-.Sq "Elite16 Ultra"
-ISA boards)
-.It
-SMC 91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
-.It
-SMC EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet boards
-.(bullet -compact
-SMC Etherpower-II
-.bullet)
-.It
-Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards
-.(bullet -compact
-Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
-.It
-Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
-.It
-Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
-.It
-Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
-.It
-Compaq NetFlex 3/P in baseboard variant (the PCI
-variant doesn't use the same chip!)
-.It
-Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX
-.It
-Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
-.It
-Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station Ethernet board
-.bullet)
-.It
-VIA VT3043 (Rhine) and VT86C100A (Rhine-II) based ethernet boards
-.(bullet -compact
-D-Link DFE530TX
-.bullet)
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "FDDI adapters"
-.(bullet -compact
-Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
-.It
-Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Token-Ring adapters"
-.(bullet -compact
-.Tn IBM
-Token-Ring Network PC Adapter [+]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II [+]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-Token-Ring Network Adapter/A [+]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter [+]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A [m]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-16/4 ISA Adapter [+]
-.It
-.Tn IBM
-Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter [+]
-.It
-3COM 3C619 TokenLink [+]
-.It
-3COM 3C319 TokenLink Velocity [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Wireless network adapters"
-.(bullet -compact
-Many Atheros 802.11 cards
-.It
-3Com AirConnect Wireless LAN
-.It
-AT\*[Am]T/Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/ORiNOCO IEEE (802.11) PCMCIA cards
-.It
-Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series PCMCIA cards
-.It
-BayStack 650 802.11FH PCMCIA cards [*] [+]
-.It
-Corega Wireless LAN PCC-11 cards [*] [+]
-.It
-DEC/Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS High Rate cards [*] [+]
-.It
-ELSA AirLancer MC-11 card [*] [+]
-.It
-Intel 2100/2200BG/2915ABG/4965AGN cards [*] [+]
-.It
-Intersil Prism II
-.It
-Melco AIR CONNECT WLI-PCM-L11 cards [*] [+]
-.It
-NetWave AirSurfer PCMCIA cards [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "High Speed Serial"
-.(bullet -compact
-LAN Media Corporation SSI/LMC10000 (up to 10 Mbps) [*] [+]
-.It
-LAN Media Corporation HSSI/LMC5200 [*] [+]
-.It
-LAN Media Corporation DS3/LMC5245 [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Tape drives"
-.(bullet -compact
-Most SCSI tape drives
-.It
-Seagate and OnStream ATAPI tape drives, possibly others
-.It
-QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "CD-ROM drives"
-.(bullet -compact
-Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
-.(Note
-The Mitsumi driver device probe is known to cause trouble with several
-devices!
-.Note)
-.Pp
-.It
-Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
-.It
-Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
-.(Note
-Some low-priced IDE CD-ROM drives are known for being not or not fully ATAPI
-compliant, and thus require some hack (generally an entry to a
-quirk table) to work with
-.Nx .
-.Note)
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Mice"
-.(bullet -compact
-.Dq "Logitech"
-.Ns -style
-bus mice [*] [+]
-.It
-.Tn Microsoft Ns No -style bus mice [*] [+]
-.It
-.Dq "PS/2"
-.Ns -style
-mice [*] [+]
-.It
-Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Sound Cards"
-.(bullet -compact
-Aria based sound cards [*]
-.It
-Cirrus Logic CS461x, CS4280 and CS4281 audio [*] [+]
-.It
-Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+]
-.It
-ESS Technology ESS 1688 Audiodrive, ES1777/1868/1869/1887/1888/888, Maestro 1/2/2E and
-Solo-1 ES1938/1946 [*] [+]
-.It
-Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play [*] [+]
-.It
-Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
-.It
-NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV / 256ZX AC'97 audio [*] [+]
-.It
-Personal Sound System [*] [+]
-.It
-ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
-.It
-S3 SonicVibes [*] [+]
-.It
-SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16 [*] [+]
-.It
-VIA VT82C686A southbridge integrated AC97 audio [*] [+]
-.It
-Windows Sound System [*] [+]
-.It
-Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio (DS-1 series) [*] [+]
-.It
-Yamaha OPL3-SA3 audio [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "Game Ports (Joysticks)"
-[*] [+]
-.It
-.Te 2 "Miscellaneous"
-.(bullet -compact
-Advanced power management (APM) [*]
-.It
-Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-Universal Serial Bus (USB)
-.(bullet -compact
-UHCI host controllers [*] [+]
-.It
-OHCI host controllers [*] [+]
-.It
-Hubs [*] [+]
-.It
-Keyboards using the boot protocol [*] [+]
-.It
-Mice [*] [+]
-.It
-Printers [*] [+]
-.It
-Modems using Abstract Control Model [*] [+]
-.It
-3G wireless modems [*] [+]
-.It
-Generic support for HID devices [*] [+]
-.It
-Ethernet adapters [*] [+]
-.It
-Audio devices [*] [+]
-.It
-FTDI based serial adapters [*] [+]
-.It
-Silicon Labs CP210x serial adapters [*] [+]
-.It
-Mass storage devices such as disks, ZIP drives and digital cameras [*] [+]
-.It
-driver for the Prolific host-to-host adapter [*] [+]
-.It
-Handspring Visor driver [*] [+]
-.bullet)
-.It
-.Te 2 "PCMCIA Controllers."
-.br
-ISA, PCI, and ISA Plug and Play attachments
-.(bullet -compact
-Intel 82365 PCIC, rev 0 and rev 1
-.It
-Cirrus PD6710
-.It
-Cirrus PD672X
-.bullet)
-.(Note
-This will work with most laptops as well as with ISA cards which provide
-PCMCIA slots for desktops.
-.Note)
-.Pp
-.It
-.Te 2 "RAID Controllers"
-.(bullet -compact
-3ware Escalade family of controllers
-.It
-Compaq Integrated Array (PCI) [b]
-.It
-Compaq IAES (EISA)
-.It
-Compaq IDA, IDA-2 (EISA)
-.It
-Compaq Smart Array 221, 3100ES, 3200, 4200, 4250ES (PCI) [b]
-.It
-Compaq Smart Array 431, RAID LC2 [b]
-.It
-Compaq SMART 2, 2/E (EISA)
-.It
-Compaq SMART 2/E, 2/P, 2DH, 2SL (PCI) [b]
-.It
-DELL RAID controllers
-.(bullet -compact
-PERC 2/SC
-.It
-PERC 2/DC
-.It
-PERC 4/Di
-.It
-PERC 4/SC
-.It
-PERC 4e/Si
-.It
-CERC 1.5
-.bullet)
-.It
-DPT SCSI RAID boards (ISA [*], EISA and PCI)
-.(bullet -compact
-SmartCache III
-.It
-SmartCache IV
-.It
-SmartRAID III
-.It
-SmartRAID IV
-.bullet)
-.It
-MegaRAID controllers
-.(bullet -compact
-320-1
-.It
-320-2
-.It
-Series 418
-.It
-Enterprise 1200 (Series 428)
-.It
-Enterprise 1300 (Series 434)
-.It
-Enterprise 1400 (Series 438)
-.It
-Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
-.It
-Enterprise 1600 (Series 471)
-.It
-Elite 1500 (Series 467)
-.It
-Elite 1600 (Series 493)
-.It
-Express 100 (Series 466WS)
-.It
-Express 200 (Series 466)
-.It
-Express 300 (Series 490)
-.It
-Express 500 (Series 475)
-.bullet)
-.bullet)
-.bullet)
-.Pp
-.Te 2 "Specific driver footnotes:"
-.(tag "[*]"
-.It [*]
-Drivers are
-.Em not
-present in kernels 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.
+On extremely memory starved systems, a custom installation of
.Nx
-normally
-allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
-them by compiling a custom kernel once
-.Nx
-is installed.
-.It [+]
-Support
-.Em is
-included in the
-.Li GENERIC
-kernels,
-although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
-.It [b]
-Devices require 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.
-.It [m]
-Devices are only supported by MCA-enabled kernels.
-.tag)
+with a stripped-down kernel can be performed manually.
+That procedure is not documented here.
