Subject: Re: unixfs and StrongARM
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/14/1996 20:14:35
>  As to StrongARM.
>
>Will we require a new bootloader as well as a new kernel?

Yep The 1.2-release bootloader will be SA compatible.
Only a couple of minor changes..

>I tried (just for the hell of it) booting the latest kernel with my SA
>fitted, and as soon as I pressed boot, it gave an error (abort on
>somethingorother) but !BtRiscBSD didn't die, and RiscOS stayed working
>fine. Presumably this is happening in the early stages of loading the
>kernel, before it even starts running it?  (This is using the latest
>bootloader from the 1.2-beta directory)
>
>  Just wondering!
Use of swi like OS_SynchroniseCodeAreas are needed in the bootloader ...
You would get further if you do *cache off first ;-)

CHeers,
				Mark

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