3.2 Supported Hardware

 

Red Hat Linux Alpha supports a variety of hardware based on the Alpha processor and the PCI bus. Platforms on which this release is known to work include:

1. AlphaPC64 (Cabriolet, Aspen Telluride)
2. AxpPCI33 (Noname)
3. EB64+ (Aspen Alpine)
4. EB66 (NekoTech Mach 1)
5. EB66+
6. Jensen (DEC PC 150, 2000 model 300, Cullean)
7. Universal Desktop Box (UDB, sometimes called Multia). This is just a noname board and is treated as such for the rest of this document.
8. AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, 400 (Avanti machines)
9. EB164 (Aspen Avalanche, Timberline, Summit; Microway Screamer)
10. Platform 2000 machines from Kinetics
11. PC164 machines (Durango)
12. Alcor type machines (AlphaStation 500, 600; Maverick, Brett)
13. Alpha-XL
14. Alpha-XLT (XL 300, XL 366)
15. Mikasa type machines (AlphaServer 1000), 1000A not supported)

All of those platforms except the Jensen include an NCR 810 SCSI controller, though BusLogic PCI SCSI controllers (other then the FlashPoint) and Qlogic 1020 ISP controllers are also supported. The Jensen design uses AHA1740 SCSI controllers which are supported.

NE2000, DE422, and DE4x5 (PCI) Ethernet cards are supported. This includes the UDB's internal Ethernet hardware. Token ring support is also included in the kernels.

The X Windows system should work on any machine with a S3 based video card except the Jensen machines. There is a server available from ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com for S3 cards in /pub/linux/axp/jensen. TGA servers (which work on the UDB for example) are available in the X11 directory on the Red Hat CD. Most of the cards from Orchid and Number 9 will work. Most Diamond Stealth cards are supported, though they can be less stable than other options. Digital TGA cards (based on the DC21030 chip) are supported in 8 bit mode, and a X server for Mach64 cards is also provided, though it is known to be buggy.

This hardware list is rapidly changing. For more current information, see the Red Hat Software WWW site at http://www.redhat.com.

More information on Alpha hardware is available in Appendix D