Chris Gilbert wrote:
>On Wednesday 14 February 2001  1:57 pm, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> >> For what purpose, I've seen no sign of any new architectures being
>> >> merged into the main NetBSD tree, I believe that someone has SA1100's
>> >> running NetBSD, and there maybe other devices.  There's been talk of
>> >> moving the different architectures into their own sys/arch/ dir.  But
>> >> nothing concrete has actually happened.
>> >
>> >Well I would like these SA1100 patches/support to be included into the
>> >source tree for other ppl would love to work on those too and it makes the
>> >user base a lot bigger for there are lots of small SA1100 boards around
>> >esp. around universities nowadays and they all run Linux :(
>>
>> I would like to get them into the tree as well, I would be grateful for
>> any extra help that is available.

>Be useful with the current work to get elf support in to make sure we don't 
>break SA1100 :)

I'm basing the SA11x0 support on the CATS code since that is my other
system, I would hope that the CATS port continues to work.

My only request would be to keep the load address of elf binaries as low
in VM as possible.

>Any change of sticking the changes onto a web page somewhere (or send them to 
>me and I'll stick them on the web somewhere)  Mainly so others can see them, 
>and if anyone asks we can say 'Yes we support SA1100 :)'

I'll put a description on http://www.fdy2.demon.co.uk/sa11x0 with a link
to a tarball.

Robert