On Wednesday 14 February 2001  9:02 pm, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 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.

Well I don't expect anything to break :)

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

Should be fairly low, they need to run on arm26, so that restricts the 
address space :)

> >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.

Excellent stuff, I'll take a look when the website updates :)

Cheers,
Chris