Subject: arm32 NetBSD distribution
To: Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK <justin.stringfellow@UK.Sun.COM>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/18/1998 22:14:50
	Hmm - it looks like the links to the install notes and ftp site
	have got lost in Neil's reorganisation of the arm32 pages.
	(Neil, any ideas? :)

	The directory is:
	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3.2/arm32/

		David/absolute

     		  -=-  "cold nights, dark days..."  -=-

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK wrote:

> 
> > > Excuse me if this is not relevant, but why doesn't the jump itself produce 
> some 
> > > sort of segmentation violation & crap out _before_ executing the data?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't think NetBSD restricts execute permission on data and stack areas: 
> > if you can read it you can (try to) run it.
> 
> aah.. I was assuming the jump was to outside of the process' memory area 
> entirely.
> 
> umm... sorry to ask an FAQ, but, having wandered aimlessly about in netbsd.org 
> on several occasions, I can't find anything resembling a full distribution, so 
> can someone point me at the best place to get my hands on a RiscPC version of 
> 1.3 (or whatever's latest)? I tried looking at the "snapshot" that Mark 
> mentioned whatever that is, but I can't believe that it is big enough to 
> constitute a full distribution (is it an update or something?). I'm upgrading a 
> sort of 1.2 system but to be honest it's knackered and I'm using Solaris x86 on 
> a DX4/100 at present... 
> 
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