Subject: Re: Reworking Revision K strongarms ...
To: Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK <justin.stringfellow@UK.Sun.COM>
From: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/30/1998 11:54:50
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK wrote:

>=20
> > and you might well be able to find somebody with SMT rework ability
> > who'd change the chip for =A350 or less.  If all of you who suffer from
> > the bug were to club together and do this then it would probably be
> > cheaper still.=20

I might be vaguely interested, although I don't rembmer ever having the
problem discussed recently (but then I don't think my system touches the
swap space very often)

=20
> Er, as an aside, where's the latest version of RiscBSD? It's not in the=
=20
> ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk/...blah.../1.3-Alpha  surely?

Nope, that's not the latest version (although you need to get the stuff
from there for X11)  The latest version is:
ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3.1/arch/arm32

> Think I might bother to upgrade my 1.2 system at last.

It's worth it, The whole system feels much faster with 1.3, possibly due
to the shared libraries, and the compiler does soft-float, also the vfork
patch to the current kernel is worth it as I've noticed a speed increase
when running shell scripts.  Again I feel it's worth thanking all those
involved in NetBSD for making it such a portable system that works well.

Cheers,
Chris