FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Supported Processors and Motherboards
2.1 Supported Devices Overview
3 Supported Devices
3.1 Disk Controllers
3.2 Ethernet Interfaces
3.3 FDDI Interfaces
3.4 ATM Interfaces
3.5 Wireless Network Interfaces
3.6 Miscellaneous Networks
3.7 ISDN Interfaces
3.8 Serial Interfaces
3.9 Audio Devices
3.10 Camera and Video Capture Devices
3.11 USB Devices
3.12 IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices
3.13 Bluetooth Devices
3.14 Cryptographic Accelerators
3.15 Miscellaneous
This is a preliminary document. It is incomplete, and in need of
additional content. Please send additional information on IA-64
processors, motherboards, and various devices working on FreeBSD to the
FreeBSD IA64 porting mailing list.
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1 Introduction
This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD
5.1-RELEASE on the IA-64 hardware platform (also referred to as
FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-RELEASE). It lists devices known to work on this
platform, as well as some notes on boot-time kernel customization that may
be useful when attempting to configure support for new devices.
Note: This document includes information specific to the IA-64 hardware
platform. Versions of the hardware compatibility notes for other
architectures will differ in some details.
More information on FreeBSD/ia64 is contained on the FreeBSD/ia64 Project
page.
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2 Supported Processors and Motherboards
Currently supported processors are the Itanium and the Itanium 2.
Supported chipsets include:
* HP zx1 (only on development branch, see the Perforce repository)
* HP i2000
* Intel 460GX
* Intel E8870
Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations
are under active development. At this time, SMP-enabled systems are
considered less stable. The current priorities are UP fixes to improve
stability.
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2.1 Supported Devices Overview
This section contains additional information about what devices may or may
not be supported by FreeBSD/ia64.
Except for the PC chipset embedded ata(4) controllers, most should work
out of the box. Eventually, all ia64-compatible ATA controllers are
expected to be fully supported. Refer to the following sections for
various disk controllers and their current status.
In general, ``PC standard'' serial ports supported by the sio(4) driver
are expected to work on Intel legacy machines, but not PA legacy machines.
The reason is that all devices on HP machines are memory-mapped and there
is no ISA device support other than the PCI dictated VGA legacy.
In addition to sio(4) devices, the following devices fail on non-Intel
legacy machines (but should work on boxes with an Intel legacy) because
their drivers make ISA-specific assumptions that do not hold:
sio(4) No support for memory-mapped I/O
syscons(4) Expect BIOS, VGA probes, etc.
pcm(4) Probes MSS ISA ports ad nauseum
atkbd(4), psm(4) Fixed ISA port locations
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3 Supported Devices
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This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by with
FreeBSD on the IA-64 platform. Other configurations may also work, but
simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections to
this list are encouraged.
Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices
is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base
distribution (most should), it is referenced here.
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3.1 Disk Controllers
IDE/ATA controllers (ata(4) driver)
* Acard ATP850 UDMA2, ATP860 UDMA4, ATP865 UDMA6
* AMD 756 ATA66, 766 ATA100, 768 ATA100
* Cenatek Rocket Drive
* CMD 646, 648 ATA66, and 649 ATA100
* Cypress 82C693
* Cyrix 5530 ATA33
* HighPoint HPT366 ATA66, HPT370 ATA100, HPT372 ATA133, HPT374 ATA133
* Intel PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX4
* Intel ICH ATA66, ICH2 ATA100, ICH3 ATA100, ICH4 ATA100
* nVidia nForce ATA100, nForce2 ATA133
* Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265)
* Promise ATA133 OEM chip (pdc20269)
* Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000
* Promise SATA150 TX2/TX4 Serial ATA/150
* Promise Ultra-33, -66, -100, -133 TX2/TX2000/TX4000
* ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33
* ServerWorks CSB5 and CSB6 ATA66/ATA100
* Sil 0680 UDMA6
* SiS 530, 540, 550, 620
* SiS 630, 630S, 633, 635, 640, 645, 645DX, 648, 650, 651, 652, 655,
658, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 746, 748, 750, 751, 752, 755
* SiS 5591 ATA100
* VIA 82C586 ATA33, 82C596 ATA66, 82C686a ATA66, 82C686b ATA100
* VIA 8233, 8235 ATA133
Qlogic controllers and variants (isp(4) driver)
* Qlogic 1020, 1040 SCSI and Ultra SCSI host adapters
* Qlogic 1240 dual Ultra SCSI controllers
* Qlogic 1080 Ultra2 LVD and 1280 Dual Ultra2 LVD controllers
* Qlogic 12160 Ultra3 LVD controllers
* Qlogic 2100 and Qlogic 2200 Fibre Channel SCSI controllers
* Qlogic 2300 and Qlogic 2312 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel SCSI controllers
* Performance Technology SBS440 ISP1000 variants
* Performance Technology SBS450 ISP1040 variants
* Performance Technology SBS470 ISP2100 variants
* Antares Microsystems P-0033 ISP2100 variants
LSI Logic Fusion/MP architecture Fiber Channel controllers (mpt driver)
* LSI 53c1020, 53c1030
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I,
SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks,
tape drives (including DAT, 8mm Exabyte, Mammoth, and DLT), medium
changers, processor target devices and CD-ROM drives. WORM devices that
support CD-ROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CD-ROM
drivers (such as cd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by
cdrecord(1), which is a part of the sysutils/cdrtools port in the Ports
Collection.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
* SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
(cd(4))
* ATAPI IDE interface (acd(4))
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3.2 Ethernet Interfaces
Intel 82557-, 82258-, 82559-, 82550- or 82562-based Fast Ethernet NICs
(fxp(4) driver)
* Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
* Intel InBusiness 10/100 PCI Network Adapter
* Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter
* Intel Pro/100 VE Desktop Adapter
* Intel Pro/100 M Desktop Adapter
* Intel Pro/100 S Desktop, Server and Dual-Port Server Adapters
* On-board Ethernet NICs on many Intel motherboards.
Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x (bge(4) driver)
* 3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T
* Netgear GA302T
* SysKonnect SK-9D21 and 9D41
Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Intel 82542 and 82543 controller chips
(gx(4) and em(4) drivers), plus NICs supported by the Intel 82540EM,
82544, 82545EM, and 82546EB controller chips (em(4) driver only)
* Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Note: The em(4) driver is officially supported by Intel, but is only
supported on the i386.
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3.3 FDDI Interfaces
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3.4 ATM Interfaces
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3.5 Wireless Network Interfaces
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3.6 Miscellaneous Networks
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3.7 ISDN Interfaces
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3.8 Serial Interfaces
``PC standard'' 8250, 16450, and 16550-based serial ports (sio(4) driver)
PCI-Based multi-port serial boards (puc(4) driver)
* Diva Serial (GSP) Multiport UART (development branch only)
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3.9 Audio Devices
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3.10 Camera and Video Capture Devices
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3.11 USB Devices
Host Controllers (ohci(4) and uhci(4) drivers)
* UHCI or OHCI compliant motherboard chipsets (no exceptions known)
USB 2.0 controllers using the EHCI interface (ehci(4) driver)
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3.12 IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices
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3.13 Bluetooth Devices
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3.14 Cryptographic Accelerators
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3.15 Miscellaneous
VGA-compatible video cards (vga(4) driver)
Note: Information regarding specific video cards and compatibility with
XFree86 can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/.
Keyboards including:
* PS/2 keyboards (atkbd(4) driver)
Pointing devices including:
* PS/2 mice and compatible devices, including many laptop pointing
devices (psm(4) driver)
* Serial mice and compatible devices
Note: moused(8) has more information on using pointing devices with
FreeBSD. Information on using pointing devices with XFree86 can be found
at http://www.xfree86.org/.
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