[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/i386 Be less optimistic about i386 system reqi...

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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/03d12260aa58
branches:  trunk
changeset: 361979:03d12260aa58
user:      nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sun Feb 20 09:40:07 2022 +0000

description:
Be less optimistic about i386 system reqirements. Remove extremely outdated
list of support devices.

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 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 679 deletions(-)

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diff -r 17751e7586f8 -r 03d12260aa58 distrib/notes/i386/hardware
--- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware       Sat Feb 19 17:54:02 2022 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware       Sun Feb 20 09:40:07 2022 +0000
@@ -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 @@
 .It
 a Pentium compatible or later processor
 .bullet)
-On systems with under 32MB of memory, a custom
-installation of NetBSD can be performed manually.
+On extremely memory starved systems, a custom installation of
+.Nx
+with a stripped-down kernel 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