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 evaulating other possible ARM platforms.

Table of contents

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

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. (XXX what about the future?)

X11:

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

Projects (in no particular order):

• Shared libraries
• Better booting support from ABLE.
• Kernel Symbols.

Supported peripherals:

• Onboard PCI modules (pci)
  • Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE
• PCI-Bridges (pchb)
  • Acer Labs M1533 ISA
• Video Cards
  • S3 PCI VGA
• Ethernet
  • 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
  • Symbios Logic 53c810, 53c825 (siop)
  • Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the Adaptec AHA-274x and AHA-284x families). (ahc)
  • Adaptec AHA-[23]94x[W] cards and some on-board PCI designs using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips. (ahc)
  • Adaptec AHA-[23]9[34]xU[2W] cards and on-board PCI designs using the AIC789[01], AIC7895, AIC789[67] chips. (ahc)
  • Adaptec AIC-789[29] chips and products like the AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI. (ahc) (However, the 7899G card is currently not supported with more than one device attached)
  • 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 NOTE USB may not be working correctly.
  • 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.

Unsupported Hardware:

• XXX

Getting and installing OpenBSD/cats:

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

Currently, no installation media is provided: XXX

Known Problems

• Likely, which one you want?