On Friday 14 December 2001 1:47 pm, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <20011214122925.J15919@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk> you write:
> > MACHINE: arm32
> > MACHINE_ARCH: arm32
> >
> > All builds for this platform should be done via a traditional make
> >
> > If you wish to test using the new toolchain set
> >
> > USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN=yes
> >
> > in either the environment or mk.conf and rerun
> >
> >Any thoughts as to whether or not it is harmful to try?
>
> Well, it probably won't cause you physical injury.  On the other hand, I
> believe that the new toolchain doesn't support NetBSD a.out shared
> libraries on ARM, so you might have to switch to using ELF (set
> MACHINE_ARCH to "arm"), and we still haven't settled the ARM ELF ABI. 
> Also, I don't think the DNARD (the only machine still supported by
> MACHINE=arm32) supports booting ELF kernels yet.

Also worth noting that cats can't boot ELF kernels either.  I'm going to 
chase that up next week (I'm on holiday next week so should find time)

Chris