Subject: arm32 NetBSD distribution
To: Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK <justin.stringfellow@UK.Sun.COM>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/18/1998 22:14:50
Hmm - it looks like the links to the install notes and ftp site
have got lost in Neil's reorganisation of the arm32 pages.
(Neil, any ideas? :)
The directory is:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3.2/arm32/
David/absolute
-=- "cold nights, dark days..." -=-
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK wrote:
>
> > > Excuse me if this is not relevant, but why doesn't the jump itself produce
> some
> > > sort of segmentation violation & crap out _before_ executing the data?
> > >
> >
> > I don't think NetBSD restricts execute permission on data and stack areas:
> > if you can read it you can (try to) run it.
>
> aah.. I was assuming the jump was to outside of the process' memory area
> entirely.
>
> umm... sorry to ask an FAQ, but, having wandered aimlessly about in netbsd.org
> on several occasions, I can't find anything resembling a full distribution, so
> can someone point me at the best place to get my hands on a RiscPC version of
> 1.3 (or whatever's latest)? I tried looking at the "snapshot" that Mark
> mentioned whatever that is, but I can't believe that it is big enough to
> constitute a full distribution (is it an update or something?). I'm upgrading a
> sort of 1.2 system but to be honest it's knackered and I'm using Solaris x86 on
> a DX4/100 at present...
>
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