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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-02-27 18:06:45 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-02-27 18:06:45 +0000
commitecc4f14df196d0a519dc469c92893a570e302314 (patch)
treeb1b1645aded107a97676931fd5ed276f3246b3c4 /distrib
parent7e3d40f57ffd778e3312633d5b006423dedd5718 (diff)
nobody asks about parallel port zip drives anymore, nor are we planning
to support them
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.285 2013/03/14 22:10:03 tedu Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.286 2014/02/27 18:06:44 tedu Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PCs and
clones, with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It
can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulties on most
@@ -1090,28 +1090,6 @@ Support for devices marked with [*] is not included in the distribution media
or in the GENERIC kernel, and will require you to compile a custom kernel to
enable it.
-Hardware that we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
-about:
- The "Micro Channel" MCA bus used in many IBM PS/2 models
- NCR 5380-based and 53400-based SCSI host adapters
- QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives (these are the tape drives
- that connect to the floppy disk controller)
- Sony and Panasonic proprietary CD-ROM interfaces
- Parallel-port ZIP drives (SCSI and ATAPI ZIP drives work fine)
- Intel i82556 (EtherExpress PRO/100A) and i82596 (EtherExpress
- PRO/10 PCI) Ethernet adapters
- Hewlett-Packard PC-LAN+ (HP27xxx) Ethernet adapters
- Aureal Vortex sound cards
- Winmodems
- Infrared devices, such as commonly found on laptops
- Firewire
- Mylex and Intel RAID controllers
- PCMCIA:
- Memory cards
- Most multifunction cards
-
-We are planning future support for many of these devices.
-
To be detected by the distributed kernels, some ISA devices must
be configured with specific settings. Here's their list: