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This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on the IA-64 hardware platform (also referred to as FreeBSD/ia64 5.0-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.
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.
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
Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265)
Promise ATA133 OEM chip (pdc20269)
Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000
Promise Ultra-33, -66, -100, -133 TX2/TX2000
ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33
ServerWorks CSB5 ATA66/ATA100
Sil 0680 UDMA6
SiS 530, 540, 620
SiS 630, 633, 635, 645, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 750
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
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))
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
Integrated gigabit Ethernet NICs on DELL PowerEdge 2550 servers
Integrated gigabit Ethernet NICs on IBM x235 servers
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.
Keyboards including:
PS/2 keyboards
Mice including:
PS/2 mice ( psm(4) driver)
Serial mice
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