I'm not sure a CATS based system is the right choice for the tasks you
mention. The Cats are really nice systems for ARM development purposes =
and
run NetBSD smoothly (I'm running 1.5T on them), but their processing =
power
is limited to the 233MHz SA-110. You can propably find medium powered
(400-700 MHz) pentium-like boards for less than the cost of a CATS =
board.

 Furthermore there are not that many Video-cards supported by the x86 =
BIOS
emulation of the Cats firmware(still in development according to my
documentation), so unless you can get one of the following cards to =
work in
the required resolution you might get difficulties here too. The latest =
list
of cards known to work I've seen is=20

Diamond stealth 3D 2000 Pro
Daytona Generic 4Mb
Ati Charger
STB Velocity 128
Cirrus Logic Generic 2 Mb

 Other cards might work for you, but no guarantee.

I think you can use PC100 memory in it, but I have not tried so myself.

 The original documents phrase it as "Two standard 168 pin 3.3V =
unbuffered
SDRAM sockets are provided to take up to 256 MB of RAM" and later "we =
would
recommend that only branded single array PC-66 and PC-100 type modules =
using
64Mbit SDRAM devices used". Their list of 64 MB memory modules that are
known to work are Samsung KMM366S823ATL-G0 and Fujitsu =
PDC8UV8484B-103TS.=20

 If you have a FAX number I can send you their hardware description =
(hope
I'm not infringing any copyrights here ;-).

Kurt Alstrup

-----Original Message-----
From: "H=E5kan Th=F6rngren" <H=E5kan Th=F6rngren =
[mailto:hth@update.uu.se]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:05 PM
To: port-arm32@netbsd.org
Subject: CATS questions


I am considering building a machine around a CATS motherboard and have
some questions..  I am new to PC hardware, having used mostly SUN
workstations before.  Just so you understand my limited level of
experience...

How much memory can I put in a CATS?  It is listed as using 2 PC66
DIMMs. Can I put 2 256MB PC100 DIMMs into it and have 512MB?
These 256MB DIMMs are reasonably priced, larger memories appear to
cost a lot more (today).

Is there any high resolution graphics board available for it?  I would
like something like 1600x1200 and 24 bit planes, or at least
1280x1024.  I want to work with photography, no fancy fast 3D
rendering.  A quick browsing around and it seems to exist hardware
that are capable enough, but are there any NetBSD ARM drivers
available (or in the works) for such graphics boards?

/H=E5kan