Philip Blundell writes:
> The 2.3 tree in CVS has support for one ARM7500FE-based machine already; this 
> might be a good starting point.  The 7500's IOMD block is not quite the 
> same as the one in the RiscPC (and there are a few other differences too) so 
> it will be hard to make one kernel run on both machines.

Err, not as far as I know.  If you want the ARM7500 stuff integrated at some
point, you know what to do.  (btw, it seems like the feature freeze in the main
kernel is dead).

> >I boot with:
> >!Linux -bootkernel kernel
> 
> BTW, the !Linux loader is not free software.  You might like to investigate 
> LinLoader or some other alternative instead, since you will probably have to 
> modify it to pass the right architecture number for a new machine.

The loader is free software, just not open-sourced.  Reason?  RISC OS is not
a platform which lends itself to open-source.
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