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- In message <Pine.SOL.3.95.970119132703.4887B-100000@hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk>
- Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
- [some brutally trimmed text:]
- > Secondly, there's lack of developers. This is partly because very few
- > people seem to have actually stepped forwards and said `I will do
- > such-and-such work'. Partly it's because Russell doesn't manage to
- > release sources very often, and so even those are willing have a hard time
- > doing anything useful.
-
- I'd like to do something - but I can't even run linux at the moment
- (ARM 700). I have a pentium sitting next to me than I could use to
- cross compile things, but that's kind of hindered by not having any
- source.
-
- I have not idea what's involved in getting it to work on a 700 -
- I can't see it been too much, like you say, but I don't want to stand
- up and say "I'll do this", and then find it's way outside of my
- capabilities.
-
- > Russell doesn't have a fast Internet link.
-
- I have a zip drive that I can connect upto a PC at uni - if people
- want things uploading, I can do it if it's sent to me on a zipdisc...
-
- > - ARM6 support. This ought not to be very difficult, given that
- > we have ARM3 and StrongARM already (and a good fraction of the
- > ARM6 stuff is in there anyway). There are plenty of people with
- > either RiscPCs or other ARM6-based hardware who would like to
- > run Linux.
-
- *waves hand in air*
-
- > - X. The Xserver for Archimedes hardware isn't really rocket
- > science, since VIDC just gives you a flat framebuffer. At the
- > moment I think we only have quite an old version, and it would
- > be nice to have the latest XFree86 ported (they really ought to
- > think about changing the name eventually...).
-
- How much is involved in this?
- (Low-level VIDC hacking?)
-
- > - Debian. Bruce Perens has shown some interest in having a Debian
- > port for the ARM, and it seems like a good idea.
-
- I'd assume (perhaps wrongly) that this is mostly just a question of
- grabbing the sources and compiling things. I could perhaps do this,
- depending on what sort of timescale things are going to happen on.
-
- > - gcc. At the moment GCC doesn't generate such good code for the
- > ARM as Norcroft does, and this is a bit of a shame.
-
- This isn't just arm-linux, though - and I thought there was already
- someone working on this.
-
- > 4. Weird stuff.
- >
- > - Some sort of emulator to allow RISC OS binaries to run might be
- > a fun thing to have.
-
- fun, yes. Whether it could actually have any practical value or not
- is another matter ;-)
-
- As far as I can see, from what's on the ftp site, I can't do anything
- without having access to an A5000, and I don't :-(
-
- --
- Joseph Heenan
- email: esuvf@csv.warwick.ac.uk, J.Heenan@ftp.barnet.ac.uk
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