Subject: Re: cl-ps7500fe
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Tobias Seiler <tobi@themaster.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/15/2002 15:34:54
Hi,

I guess its a more embedded machine. Its a settopbox developed by teknema
and its running their software. I don't know what a system it is running. I
would need a more sophisticated bootloader then I think...


> > I got hold of a machine using this chip and I'd like to get NetBSD
working
> > on it.
> > The website states that this should already work. Is this true and if
how do
> > I make it work ?
> >
> > I guess it might be a problem getting this thing to boot NetBSD. I don't
> > know if this thing is using ofw. And then, how to get a kernel into its
> > flash ?
>
> Machines using that chip are certainly supported, the Acorn NC being one.
> However, whether your machine is directly supported with an existing
> kernel will depend on what else is on the board.  Unless the machine is
> already running RISC OS, I doubt that existing kernels will be suitable.

Tobias