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Add info on OSF/1 emulation, IDE support on Alpha. Removed some references

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to EISA cards as there is no EISA bus support on Alpha.
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Wilko Bulte 2000-02-13 12:05:14 +00:00
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@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ specifically marked as [MERGED] features.
1.1. KERNEL CHANGES
-------------------
An emulator for Tru64 (aka DEC OSF/1) binaries has been added.
Support for the following platforms has been added:
AlphaServer 1000 (1000A untested)
Compaq Professional Workstation XP900, XP1000, AlphaServer DS10
AlphaServer DS20 (single CPU only)
Device support on Alpha is greatly improved. ATA drives are now vis1ble, and
available as boot devices on platforms which support it. Sound,
floppy, and other ISA drivers are now known to work.
NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning
Support for more than 32 signals has been added.
@ -190,29 +201,17 @@ as part of the FreeBSD Auditing Project.
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.
For an extensive overview of supported Alpha machines/mainboards please refer
to the HARDWARE.TXT file.
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294x/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series
EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers.
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
@ -257,8 +256,6 @@ SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a,
QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters.
QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only).
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks,
tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor
@ -445,7 +442,7 @@ Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926.
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI
and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter
@ -514,7 +511,7 @@ SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, EISA and PCI serial expansion cards/modules.
Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, PCI serial expansion cards/modules.
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver)