Subject: Re: Relevance of ARM merge (was: Re: port-arm26 and port-arm32 into port-arm mailing list)
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org, port-arm26@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/14/2001 20:10:33
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 have sent a pr containing the only userland changes, the changes to
> the shared kernel source probably need to be split into several PRs
> to make them easier to review.
>
> The contents of my arm32/sa11x0 directory need to be added as well but
> it would be helpful if I could get CVS commit rights to keep working
> on it.

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 :)'

Cheers,
Chris