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OpenBSD/i386 2.2 runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It
does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The
minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk space,
though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite this minimal today.
To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X
or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of RAM will
actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy.
Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more
important than getting a faster CPU.)
Supported devices include:
Floppy controllers.
MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
SCSI host adapters:
Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
Adaptec AHA-174x
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from
these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
Adaptec AHA-294x[W] cards and some onboard PCI designs using
the AIC7870 chip. This driver does *not* currently
work with non-PCI AIC-7xxx boards or the Adaptec 3940.
Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones; driver on kcadp floppy)
BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters
Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
ST01/02
Future Domain TMC-885
Future Domain TMC-950
MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
all of the display adapters OpenBSD/i386 can work with
are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
information.)
Serial ports:
8250/16450-based ports
16550-based ports
AST-style 4-port serial boards [*]
BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards [*]
IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards [*]
Parallel ports.
Ethernet adapters:
AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
Novell NE1500T
Novell NE2100
Kingston 21xx
AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
BOCALANcard/PCI
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
3COM 3c501
3COM 3c503
3COM 3c505 [*]
3COM 3c507
3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, 3c59x and 3c9xx
Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
Znyx ZX34X
Cogent EM100
Digital DE450
Digital DE500
BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
Intel EtherExpress 16
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) [X SEE BELOW]
Novell NE1000, NE2000
Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters
Tape drives:
Most SCSI tape drives
QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
CD-ROM drives:
Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
to cause trouble with several devices!]
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives
Mice:
"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
Serial mice (uses serial port driver)
Sound Cards:
SoundBlaster [*] [+]
Gravis Ulrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
[The following drivers are not extensively tested]
Personal Sound System [*] [+]
Windows Sound System [*] [+]
ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
Miscellaneous:
OPTi(82C929) chipset for multi-interface CD-ROM, and
sound ISA cards.
Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all other drivers are
present on install floppy. Also, at the present time, the
distributed kernels support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.
OpenBSD normally allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you
can use all of them by compiling a custom kernel once OpenBSD is
installed.
Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
although it is not in the kernel on the installation floppy.
Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
about:
Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the
Adaptec AHA-274x, AHA-284x families).
NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
APM power management -- if your system supports it, turn it off!
QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
PCI-PCI bridges and cards which include them, such as the AHA-394x
SCSI host adapter and some DC21x4x-based multi-Ethernet cards.
Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should
run fine using one processor only.)
Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
We are planning future support for many of these devices.
To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:
Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks or atapi]
wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two disks or atapi]
Floppy controller
fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
aha0 0x330 any any
AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
ahb0 any any any
BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bt0 0x330 any any
Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
uha0 0x330 any any
AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
aic0 0x340 11 6
Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
ncr0 any any any
SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000
ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000
ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000 [X SEE BELOW]
3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c595 Ethernet boards (the 3c590 has problems)
ep0 any any
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, or 3COM 3c507 Ethernet boards
ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
PCNet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
SPECIAL CARE FOR SMC ULTRA ELITE
--------------------------------
Note for SMC Elite Ultra ethernet card users: The Elite Ultra is very
sensitive to how it's i/o port is treated. Mistreating it can cause
a number of effects -- everything from the card not responding when the
kernel probes, or the soft configuration being corrupted or wiped completely.
By default, the kernel ships with device ed2 configured for the 'default'
Elite Ultra locations, comprising of port 0x300, irq 10, and memory location
0xcc000. This matches a hard coded jumper on the board as well a common
soft config setting.
Unfortunately, the kernel's autconfiguration process (specifically, some
of the devices it probes for) cause conflicts with the SMC Elite Ultra, and
very often cause it to lose it's configuration and fail it's own probe.
If thise happens, you must boot the computer into DOS, and run the EzSetup
program available from SMC. The complete URL of which is
ftp://ftp.smc.com/pub/nics/ethernet/elite_ultra/gez122.exe. This program
will allow you to reconfigure and recover a card that has lost it's
configuration with a minimum of hassle.
In order to avoid blowing away the card, one *must* use the run-time kernel
configuration system when booting the Install kernel. This is done by
giving the -c flag to the initial boot request. Following the loading of
the kernel, the user is presented with a
UKC>
prompt. At this prompt, as variety of commands may be issued, but the
relevant one to getting the SMC Elite Ultra running is 'disable'. The
wt0, el0, and ie1 devices all need to be disabled. This is done by typing
'disable' followed by the name of the device, i.e., 'disable wt0', and
pressing return.
If, for some reason, your Elite Ultra is not configured at the 'default'
location the kernel is expecting it, you may also use the 'change' command
in the UKC system to modify where the kernel will look for it. Typing
'change ed2' will allow you to modify those settings. Note that running the
card at an i/o port of anything other then 0x300 at this point is not
recommended, and is beyond the scope of this document-- by doing so you
risk other device probes wreaking the havoc we are trying to avoid.
When all three extra devices are disabled and any changes made, the
'quit' command will exit the UKC. The kernel should then boot, and find
your Elite Ultra on device ed2.
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