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This section contains both devices which may be configured into the system and network related information. The networking support is introduced in netintro(4).
A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software support for it. If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, the system must be rebooted.
The autoconfiguration system is described in alpha/autoconf(4). A list of the supported devices is given below.
The NetBSD Project distributes binary programs for its Alpha port compiled for the lowest common denominator CPU instruction set, to guarantee binary compatibility across all supported Alpha systems. However, it is possible to sacrifice binary compatibility for additional performance on later model CPUs with performance enhancing instructions (e.g. the 21164-A and later with the BWX extensions). This requires recompiling from source code, with appropriate options given to cc(1) to indicate the target CPU.
“EV” stands for “Extended VAX” (or “Electro Vlassic”) and the number following is a reference to the CMOS process used to make the chips. “LCA” stands for Low Cost Alpha, and “PCA” stands for PC-architecture Alpha.
AlphaPC 64 (EB64)
AlphaStation 200 4/100-166 (Mustang)
AlphaStation 400 4/166 (Chinet)
DEC 3000/300 (150 MHz) (Pelican)
DEC 3000/300X (175 MHz) (Pelican+)
DEC 3000/300L (100 MHz) (Pelica)
DEC 3000/300LX (125 MHz) (Pelica+)
DEC 3000/400 (133 MHz) (Sandpiper)
DEC 3000/600 (175 MHz) (Sandpiper+)
DEC 3000/500 (150 MHz) (Flamingo)
DEC 3000/500X (200 MHz) (Hot Pink)
DEC 3000/800 (200 MHz) (Flamingo II)
DEC 3000/700 (225 MHz) (Sandpiper45)
DEC 3000/900 (275 MHz) (Flamingo45)
Alpha XL 233-266 (XL)
AlphaPC 64 (EB64+)
AlphaStation 200 4/233 (Mustang+)
AlphaStation 205 4/133-333 (LX3)
AlphaStation 250 4/300 (M3+)
AlphaStation 255 4/133-333 (LX3+)
AlphaStation 300 4/266 (Melmac)
AlphaStation 400 4/233-300 (Avanti)
AlphaServer 2100A (Lynx)
DEC AXPpci33 (NoName)
Universal Desktop Box AXPpci166MT (UDB/Multia)
21066 evaluation motherboard (EB66)
21066-A evaluation motherboard (EB66+)
Alpha Book (Burns)
Universal Desktop Box AXPpci233MT (UDB/Multia)
AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 (KN8AE)
21164 evaluation motherboard (EB164)
AlphaServer 1200 5/400-666 (Tincup)
AlphaServer 1200 5/400-666 (DaVinci)
DigitalServer 3300 (rebadged AlphaServer 800 for NT)
DigitalServer 5300 (rebadged AlphaServer 1200 for NT)
DigitalServer 7300 (rebadged AlphaServer 4100 for NT)
AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 (KN8AE)
APi AlphaPC 164UX motherboard (Ruffian)
AlphaPC 164SX motherboard (EB164)
PWS 466au (Miata)
PWS 550au (Miata)
AlphaServer 8400 (KN8AE)
APi UP1000 and UP1100; AMD 751-based EV6 systems.
264DP, XP1000, DS10, DS20, APi UP2000, UP2000+ Tsunami-based systems.
AlphaServer GS60E
AlphaServer GS140
AlphaServer DS20L
TURBOchannel devices are supported through the tc(4) bus and associated device drivers.
PCI devices are supported through the pci(4) bus and associated device drivers.
ISA devices are supported through the isa(4) bus and associated device drivers.
EISA devices are supported through the eisa(4) bus and associated device drivers.
PCMCIA devices are supported through the pcmcia(4) bus and associated device drivers.
I2C devices are supported through the iic(4) bus and associated device drivers.
Console devices using ISA, EISA, or PCI video adaptors and standard AT or PS/2 keyboards are supported by the machine independent wscons(4) console driver.
intro
appeared in NetBSD
1.6.
February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 9.4 |