Subject: Re: Food for thought.
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/09/2001 09:41:41
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> I thought it was about time to send a mail with some ideas/things that'd be 
> good to get into 1.6, some of these have been suggested, so I'm just hoping 
> to spark some discussion on them, eg what is pheasible etc.

How about getting the L1 page table stuff sorted once and for all (with
dynamic allocation)?

> Work on common version of Elf for all arm platforms.  There was talk of a new 
> abi for this.

Does this include a complete switch to ELF for arm32?

As part of that, I would like to see Linux compatability.

Richard Earnshaw's DMA code and 16-bit sound.

> Other New platforms.

Including net-booting an NC.

I'm working on the latter (though I might need some help from your
good selves...)

-- 
Dr. Stephen Borrill