[src/netbsd-2-0]: src/distrib/notes/sparc64 Pull up revision 1.15-1.17 (reque...

[he <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/d2c93955d3fe
branches:  netbsd-2-0
changeset: 561397:d2c93955d3fe
user:      he <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Jun 15 22:59:11 2004 +0000

description:
Pull up revision 1.15-1.17 (requested by mbw in ticket #482):
  Major overhaul of sparc64 install notes.  Reflects currently
  supported hardware installation methods along with additional
  info.  Also expand PCI card compat descriptions and list
  known working cards.  Correct 0680 card as SiS.  Use MI
  sysinst documentation.  sparc64 has OpenFirmware, not
  OpenBoot PROM.  Redo suggested partitioning info with more
  reasonable sizes.

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware |  186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diffs (261 lines):

diff -r b27d2373de4f -r d2c93955d3fe distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware    Tue Jun 15 22:49:15 2004 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware    Tue Jun 15 22:59:11 2004 +0000
@@ -1,20 +1,6 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.14 2003/05/18 16:29:57 martin Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.14.2.1 2004/06/15 22:59:11 he Exp $
 .
 .Ss2 Supported machines
-.(bullet -offset indent
-Sbus-based UltraSPARC systems (the Ultra 1, Ultra 1 Creator/Ultra1 Creator3D,
-Ultra 2/Ultra 2 Creator/Ultra 2 Creator 3D)
-.It
-PCI-based UltraSPARC systems (known to work on the Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Ultra 30,
-Ultra 60, Ultra 80 and their rack mounted equivalents E220R, E250, E420 and E450,
-as well as Blade 100, Netra T1, Netra X1 - and may work on many other systems)
-.bullet)
-.
-.Ss2 Unsupported machines
-.(bullet -offset indent
-Chassis-based Enterprise Systems (Ex000, Ex500, E10000)
-.bullet)
-.Pp
 The minimal configuration requires 32 MB of RAM and ~60 MB of disk space.
 To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run
 X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended, as
@@ -24,6 +10,93 @@
 with 32 MB of RAM - slow.
 Note that until you have at least 64 MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more
 important than getting a faster CPU.
+.Pp
+Not all of the machines listed here have been tested.  Often Sun will use 
+the same motherboard design in multiple models.  For example, they'll 
+release a Blade ("workstation") model, Enterprise or Fire ("server") 
+model, and Netra or ft ("telco") model with essentially the same devices, 
+as far as
+.Nx
+is concerned.  If one model in this scheme works, it is highly likely 
+another will work.  
+.Pp
+Sun has also released a few models with names that 
+might imply the systems are UltraSPARC-based but actually have an
+i386 class CPU.  These systems might be supported by the i386 port of
+.Nx .
+See the following site for more info on what system boards are in which 
+models.
+.Lk http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_TOC.html
+.(bullet -offset indent
+Sbus-based UltraSPARC I or II systems 
+.(bullet -compact
+Ultra 1 family (Ultra 1, Ultra 1 Creator, Ultra 1 Creator 3D, 
+Netra i 150, Netra nfs 150, Enterprise 1, Enterprise 150)
+.It
+Ultra 2 family (Ultra 2, Ultra 2 Creator, Ultra 2 Creator 3D, Enterprise 2)
+.It
+Enterprise (3000, 3500, 4000, 4500, 500x, 5500, 600x, 6500, 10000)
+.\" SPARCengine Ultra AX
+.bullet)
+.It
+PCI-based UltraSPARC II, IIi, or IIe systems
+.(bullet -compact
+Ultra 5/10 family (Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Enterprise 5, Enterprise 10)
+.It
+Ultra 30 family (Ultra 30, Netra T 1100)
+.It
+Ultra 60 family (Ultra 60, E220R, Netra T 1120 and T 1125)
+.It
+Ultra 80 family (Ultra 80, E420R, Netra T 1400 and T 1405)
+.It
+Ultra 250 family (Enterprise 250 and E250R)
+.It
+Ultra 450 family (Ultra 450, Enterprise 450, Netra ft 1800)
+.It
+Blade 100 and 150
+.It
+SPARCengine CP1400 or SPARCengine CP1500 system boards (Netra T1 
+(models 100 and 105), CT400, CT800, CT1600)
+.It
+SPARCengine Ultra AXi family (Netra X1, Fire v100, Fire v120, Netra 120, 
+Netra AC 200, Netra DC 200)
+.It
+SPARCengine Ultra AXe system board
+.\" UltraSPARC II
+.\" SPARCengine Ultra AXdp
+.\"
+.\" UltraSPARC IIi or IIe
+.\" Netra CP2020
+.\" Netra CP2040, Netra CP2060, Netra CP2080 system boards
+.\" Netra CP2140 system board (Netra CT410 and CT810)
+.\" Netra CP2300 system board (Netra CT820)
+.\" SPARCengine Ultra AX-MP and AX-MP+ (a.k.a. AXmp and AXmp+)
+.\" Fire B100s Blade (Fire B1600 chassis)
+.bullet)
+.bullet)
+.
+.Ss2 Unsupported machines
+.(bullet -offset indent
+Systems with an UltraSPARC III CPU
+.\" Blade 1000 and 2000 
+.\" Fire 280R and Netra 20 (T4)
+.\" Fire v480 and Fire v880
+.\" Netra T12 (Fire v1280 and Netra 1280)
+.\" Fire (3800, 4800, 4810, 6800), Fire 12K and Fire 15K
+.It
+Systems with an UltraSPARC IIIi CPU
+.\" Blade 1500
+.\" Blade 2500
+.\" Fire v210
+.\" Fire v240 and Netra 240
+.\" Fire v250
+.\" Fire v440
+.It
+Systems with an UltraSPARC IV CPU
+.\" Fire E2900
+.\" Fire E4900
+.\" Fire E6900
+.bullet)
 .
 .Ss2 Supported devices
 .(bullet -offset indent
@@ -32,25 +105,42 @@
 Sbus LANCE ethernet
 .Pq Em le
 .It
-Sbus HME ethernet
-.Pq Em hme
-.It
 Sbus BigMac ethernet
 .Pq Em be
 .It
-PCI HME ethernet
+On-board, PCI, and Sbus HME ethernet
 .Pq Em hme
 .It
-PCI Tulip
-.Pq Em tlp
-.It
 PCI ERI
 .Pq Em gem
+.It
+Many other PCI and PCMCIA Ethernet interfaces, such as
+Tulip-compatible
+.Pq Em tlp ,
+Intel
+.Pq Em fxp ,
+Intel gigabit
+.Pq Em wm ,
+NE2000-compatible
+.Pq Em ne ,
+and Realtek
+.Pq Em rtk .
+.It
+Several USB Ethernet interfaces, such as
+.Pq Em aue , cue , No and Em kue
 .bullet)
 .It
 Video devices
 .(bullet -compact
-Sbus cgsix
+All on-board frame buffers
+.br
+Unless otherwise specified, only text console is supported
+.br
+.It
+On-board and SBUS card (GX, GX+, TGX, TGX+)
+.Pq Em cgsix
+.br
+8 bpp accelerated framebuffer.
 .bullet)
 .It
 SCSI host controllers
@@ -66,38 +156,67 @@
 .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.
+.(Note
+Some Adaptec cards that support booting on
+.Tn MacOS
+may be bootable on \*M systems.
+.Note)
+.It
+Many other PCI SCSI controllers should work, but no one has tried them
+.It
+Most SCSI disk/tape/CD-ROM devices should work
 .bullet)
 .It
 PCI IDE host controllers
 .(bullet -compact
-CMD Tech PCI064[3689] IDE Controllers
+Generic IDE controllers
+.Pq Em pciide
+.It
+Acard ATP-850/860 based IDE controllers
 .Pq Em pciide
+.br
+(including the Acard AEC-6210/6260 and the Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 cards)
+.It
+CMD Tech PCI064[3689] and Silicon Image 0680 IDE Controllers
+.Pq Em cmdide
+.It
+Silicon Image 3112 SATA Controller
+.Pq Em satalink
+.(Note
+Some IDE cards that support booting on
+.Tn MacOS
+may be bootable on \*M systems.
+.Note)
+.It
+Many other PCI IDE controllers should work, but no one has tried them
+.It
+Most IDE and ATAPI disk/tape/CD-ROM devices should work
 .bullet)
 .It
 Serial devices
 .(bullet -compact
-Sbus z8530 serial
+On-board Sbus z8530 serial
 .Pq Em zs
 .It
-PCI 16550-based su and su-pnp serial
+On-board PCI 16550-based su and su-pnp serial
 .Pq Em com
 .It
-SAB82532 dual UART as found onboard on many PCI based models
+On-board PCI SAB82532 dual UART serial
 .Pq Em sab
 .bullet)
 .It
 Parallel devices
 .(bullet -compact
-Sbus parallel ports
+On-board and Sbus parallel ports
 .Pq Em bpp
 .It
-PCI/Ebus parallel ports
+On-board PCI/Ebus parallel ports
 .Pq Em lpt
 .bullet)
 .It
 Audio devices
 .(bullet -compact
-PCI and SBUS based system audio
+On-board, PCI, and SBUS based CS4231-based 44 KHz, 16 bit, stereo, PCM audio
 .Pq Em audiocs
 .bullet)
 .bullet)
@@ -108,9 +227,14 @@
 .
 .Ss2 Unsupported devices
 .(bullet -offset indent
+SMP (NetBSD/sparc64 currently only uses one CPU if more than one is 
+present)
+.It
 Floppy drives
 .It
-Video devices
+smart card reader
+.It
+X Server on ffb framebuffers, including on-board ATI mach64 and Creator series
 .(bullet -compact
 Creator3D framebuffers
 .Pq Em ffb