OpenBSD/cats

OpenBSD/cats runs on the Simtec Electronics StrongARM 110 Evaluation Board.

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The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn (drahn@openbsd.org). Others are definitely welcome to contribute! We are also evaluating other possible ARM platforms.

Table of contents

• History of the port
• Current status
• Project list
• Supported hardware
• Getting and installing OpenBSD/cats

History:

OpenBSD/cats was started based on NetBSD -current code of January 2004.

Current status:

The Simtec StrongARM 110 Evaluation Board is the only supported board at the current time.

X11:

The port is too young to think about graphics, however vga console text mode is supported.

Projects (in no particular order):

• Better booting support from ABLE firmware (in progress).
• Kernel Symbols (currently unavailable due to boot process limitations).

Supported peripherals:

Currently only the following hardware has been tested:

• Onboard PCI modules (pci)
  • Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE
• PCI-Bridges (pchb)
  • Acer Labs M1533 ISA
• Video Cards
  • S3 PCI VGA
• Ethernet
  • ASIX 88140A/88141-based PCI adapters (dc), including:
    • CNet Pro110B
    • Alfa Inc. GFC2204
  • Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, and PCI variants thereof) (ne) ^(B)
  • VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters (vr), including:
    • Addtron AEF-360TX
    • Hawking PN102TX
    • D-Link DFE530TX
  • DEC DECchip 21143 (Tulip clones) (dc)
  • Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters (fxp), including:
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter"
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port
    • Intel PRO/100 VE, PRO/100 VM, and PRO/100 S
  • Intel 21145-based PCI adapters (dc)
• SCSI and IDE Host Adapters
  • Adaptec AIC-7770, AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870, AIC-7880, AIC-7890, AIC-7891, AIC-7892, AIC-7895, AIC-7896, AIC-7897 and AIC-7899 based host adapters (ahc) including the Adaptec cards
    • AHA-274X[W,T]
    • AHA-284X
    • AHA-2910, AHA-2915
    • AHA-2920
    • AHA-2930[C,U2]
    • AHA-2940[J,N,U,AU,UW,UW Dual,UW Pro,U2W,U2B]
    • AHA-2950[U2W,U2B]
    • AHA-3940[U,AU,UW,AUW,U2W]
    • AHA-3950U2
    • AHA-3960
    • AHA-3985
    • AHA-4944UW
    • AHA-19160B
    • AHA-29160[B,N]
    • AHA-39160
  • Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx, 53C1010 and 53C1510D-based PCI host adapters including generic cards, old ASUS cards, the DTC-3130 series, and Diamond Fireport series (siop)
  • All PCI IDE (pciide) adapters supported by the i386 platform
• Drives
  • All IDE devices supported on the i386 platform.
  • All ATAPI drives supported on the i386 platform.
  • All SCSI drives supported on the i386 platform.
• USB Controllers/Hubs

  USB support does not work correctly on all boards at the moment.
  

  • OHCI: Acer Labs M5237 USB (ohci)
• USB Devices
  • Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard (ukbd)
  • Solid Year Keyboard and Mouse (ukbd) (ums)
  • Logitech M4848 (ums)
  • Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (ums)
  • USB Zip Drives (umass)
• Other Devices
  • Serial Ports: the onboard serial port should work as fcom serial console or as a standard serial port.

Getting and installing OpenBSD/cats:

The latest supported OpenBSD/cats release is OpenBSD 3.7. Here are the OpenBSD/cats 3.7 installation instructions .

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/cats snapshot installation instructions as well.