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cats
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<p>
OpenBSD/cats used to run on the
<a href="http://www.simtec.co.uk/">Simtec Electronics</a>
<a href="http://www.simtec.co.uk/products/EB110ATX/">StrongARM
110 Evaluation Board</a>.

<p>
<strong>The OpenBSD/cats port was discontinued after the 4.0 release.</strong>
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<h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>

<p>
OpenBSD/cats was started based on NetBSD -current code of January 2004.
It was used as a reasonably fast foundation to the
<a href="zaurus.html">zaurus</a> port.

<p>
Once the zaurus port was running well, cats was neglected due to the
(relative) lack of hardware and the deceiving hardware reliability,
and was dropped shortly after the inception of the
<a href="armish.html">armish</a> port.

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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>

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

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<h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported peripherals:
</strong></h3>

<p>
Currently only the following hardware has been tested:

<ul>
<li><strong>Onboard PCI modules</strong> (pci)
<ul>
<li>Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE
</ul>

<li><strong>PCI-Bridges</strong>
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/pchb.4">pchb</a>)
<ul>
<li>Acer Labs M1533 ISA
</ul>

<li><strong>Video Cards</strong>
<ul>
<li>S3 PCI VGA
</ul>

<li><strong>Ethernet</strong>
<ul>
<li>ASIX 88140A/88141-based PCI adapters (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/dc.4">dc</a>), including:
    <ul>
    <li>CNet Pro110B
    <li>Alfa Inc. GFC2204
    </ul>
<li>Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, and PCI variants thereof) (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ne.4">ne</a>) <sup>(B)</sup>
<li>VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/vr.4">vr</a>), including:
    <ul>
    <li>Addtron AEF-360TX
    <li>Hawking PN102TX
    <li>D-Link DFE530TX
    </ul>
<li>DEC DECchip 21143 (Tulip clones) (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/dc.4">dc</a>)
<li>Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/fxp.4">fxp</a>), including:
    <ul>
    <li>Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
    <li>Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+
    <li>Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter"
    <li>Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port
    <li>Intel PRO/100 VE, PRO/100 VM, and PRO/100 S
    </ul>
<li>Intel 21145-based PCI adapters (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/dc.4">dc</a>)
</ul>

<li><strong>SCSI and IDE Host Adapters</strong>
<ul>
  <li> 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
    (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ahc.4"
    >ahc</a>)
    including the Adaptec cards
    <ul>
      <li>AHA-274X[W,T]
      <li>AHA-284X
      <li>AHA-2910, AHA-2915
      <li>AHA-2920
      <li>AHA-2930[C,U2]
      <li>AHA-2940[J,N,U,AU,UW,UW Dual,UW Pro,U2W,U2B]
      <li>AHA-2950[U2W,U2B]
      <li>AHA-3940[U,AU,UW,AUW,U2W]
      <li>AHA-3950U2
      <li>AHA-3960
      <li>AHA-3985
      <li>AHA-4944UW
      <li>AHA-19160B
      <li>AHA-29160[B,N]
      <li>AHA-39160
    </ul>
  <li>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
    (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/siop.4"
    >siop</a>)
<li>All PCI IDE
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/pciide.4">pciide</a>)
adapters supported by the <a href="i386.html">i386</a> platform
</ul>

<li><strong>Drives</strong>
<ul>
<li>All IDE devices supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a> platform.
<li>All ATAPI drives supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a> platform.
<li>All SCSI drives supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a> platform.
</ul>

<li><strong>USB Controllers/Hubs</strong>
<p>
USB support does not work correctly on all boards at the moment.<br>
<ul>
<li>OHCI: Acer Labs M5237 USB (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ohci.4">ohci</a>)
</ul>

<li><strong>USB Devices</strong>
<ul>
<li>Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ukbd.4">ukbd</a>)
<li>Solid Year Keyboard and Mouse (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ukbd.4">ukbd</a>) (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ums.4">ums</a>)
<li>Logitech M4848 (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ums.4">ums</a>)
<li>Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/ums.4">ums</a>)
<li>USB Zip Drives (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/umass.4">umass</a>)
</ul>

<li><strong>Other Devices</strong>
<ul>
<li>Serial Ports: the onboard serial port should work as
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.0/fcom.4">fcom</a>
serial console or as a standard serial port.
</ul>

</ul>

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<h3 id="install">
<strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/cats:</strong>
</h3>

<p>
The last supported OpenBSD/cats release was
<a href="40.html">OpenBSD 4.0</a>.