[1746] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Updated URL for MIT Residential Computing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Aug 14 18:46:00 1998
To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 14 Aug 1998 18:45:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: Edwin Foo's message of Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:36:44 -0400
Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> PS: I am in the midst of considering a port of NetBSD to a StrongARM-SA1100
>> based platform we are designing inside Digital (aka Compaq). This isn't the
>> DNARD; it's a derivative of the Itsy
>> (http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/itsy/index.html). It currently runs
>> Linux, but the advent of USB support in the NetBSD-current kernel (and my
>> own personal opinions on how robust Linux currently is on this platform)
>> has made me interested in considering a port of NetBSD using the existing
>> arm32 sources.
>>
>> I realize this is the not the right place to ask about it, but I figure
>> people on this list should know where to point me. In particular, I'd like
>> to know if NetBSD's kernel can execute out of ROM in its current state (can
>> I simply relocate the dynamic data to another memory segment via a linker
>> flag?), and whether the DNARD support has been already folded into the tree
>> as of today or not. Thanks in advance.
I imagine this would be possible, but I wouldn't personally know where
to start. I can say that the DNARD work has been folded into the
NetBSD -current tree, so that would make an excellent starting point.
I'm not sure what the best point of contact for you is, but a good
start would seem to be the port-arm32@netbsd.org mailing list. I've
also bcc'd this message to a few other likely people, who can get in
touch with you if they want.
Marc
