OpenBSD/cats

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

The OpenBSD/cats port has been discontinued after the 4.0 release.

There is no longer work on supporting this port, however the source code is still available (soon to be moved to the CVS Attic).

A mailing list for ARM-based ports is available at arm@openbsd.org. To join the OpenBSD/arm mailing list, send a message body of "subscribe arm" to majordomo@openbsd.org. Please be sure to check our mailing list policy before subscribing.

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
• Supported hardware
• Getting and installing OpenBSD/cats

History:

OpenBSD/cats was started based on NetBSD -current code of January 2004. It was used as a reasonably fast fundation to the zaurus port.

Once the zaurus port was running well, cats was neglected due to the (relative) lack of hardware, as well as the deceiving hardware reliability, and was eventually dropped shortly after the inception of the armish port.

Current status:

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

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 has been OpenBSD 4.0. Here are the OpenBSD/cats 4.0 installation instructions .