>answer your questions, but I'm not the worst either.  Oh, and netbsd-ports
>and port-arm are probably better mailing lists for your purposes than
>port-arm32.

OK, thanks - I'll head off to them :)

> >TCP/IP stack and ISO9660 filesystem, not to mention multithreading.
>
>In that case, you should be aware that NetBSD's support for multi-threaded
>user applications is a little rudimentary -- the kernel doesn't export a

As long as the kernel is capable of handling multiple concurrent tasks, I 
can kludge everything I need. All I really lack right now is serialization 
of filesystem I/O.

>updated every day.  If you've got CVS, you'll probably find anonymous CVS
>access to be more useful.  See

I'm currently developing with arm-elf-gcc under Cygwin (so yes I have CVS). 
Would it be easier to work under x86 Linux (I don't want to try to install 
NetBSD on my main dev machine unless I absolutely have to)?

>Incidentally, you should be aware that NetBSD/arm is in a somewhat
>transitional state at the moment, as we try to re-organise it along slightly
>more sensible lines.  Be careful around the virtual scaffolding.

Thanks for the heads-up and other information!

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