Of course, none of this solves the PAL code problems :-)

> 
> Here is something I snarfed from OpenBSD/ARC:
> 
> [begin]
> 
> The ARC port, since it uses the Windows NT boot loader in the ARC
> machine's ROM, requires a kernel in ECOFF format.
> However, the rest of the port is ELF.
> 
> Therefore to boot you need the ECOFF kernel in your MSDOS boot filesystem,
> and you need the ELF kernel in your OpenBSD root filesystem.
> 
> 	cp bsd.ecoff /msdos/bsd
> 	cp bsd /bsd
> 
> [end]
> 
> This seems like the "right way" to solve the ARC problem without any
> Linux/GPL'ed/NDA code...
> 
> 
> Carl
>