On Tuesday 09 January 2001  9:41 am, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 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)?

Anyone any ideas on this?  (I need to read up on what the L1 pages do (beyond 
being that all process need them :)

> > 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?

I think the plan was to switch userland to ELF and then follow that up with 
the kernel.

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

Not sure if we can do that (Linux compatability is a strange beast, that and 
I don't even know if you can install both linux and netbsd at the same time :)

I'd prefer to see work to getting XFree86 v4 working on arm32 :)  However 
that needs work on sorting out a way to get the binary loader working for arm 
platforms.

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

How is this looking?

Chris