[ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-03 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi Since officially at the moment, Slackware ARM supports systems which have an ARMv5t minimum CPU, I am thinking of changing the baseline target CPU to be armv5t, rather than armv4t as it is at the moment. The reasoning is that: 1. I don't think the ARMedslack user base is huge and 2. Of that

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/03/2011 02:06 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: Since officially at the moment, Slackware ARM supports systems which have an ARMv5t minimum CPU, I am thinking of changing the baseline target CPU to be armv5t, rather than armv4t as it is at the moment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Stuart Winter
> This would block out that little Zipit Wireless Messenger. It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as far as I can tell. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.ar

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/04/2011 06:50 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: This would block out that little Zipit Wireless Messenger. It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as far as I can tell. Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a 940T co-processo

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Stuart Winter
> > It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as > > far as I can tell. > > Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a > 940T co-processor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_%28Z2%29 So this must be a newer versi

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/04/2011 07:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as far as I can tell. Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a 940T co-processor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_%2

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 01/04/2011 07:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > > It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as > > > > far as I can tell. > > > > > > Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X > > > has a

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
On 01/04/2011 01:03 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: Even this version with 32MB RAM isn't suitable. I don't even think Slackware on x86 can really run reliably in 32MB of RAM. So I'm not exactly concerned about this device :) Hi, Armed works fine on device with 32MB of RAM. Remember that the ne

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/04/2011 07:43 AM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: I like Armed and I like it running on my small device;) So if the gain from changing from v4 to v5 isn't really worth, then I prefer it staying v4 (my processor is arm920t). What do you run it on and what do you run? I loved my GP2X but I couldn

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
On 01/04/2011 02:04 PM, John O'Donnell wrote: What do you run it on and what do you run? I loved my GP2X but I couldnt conceive running armedslack. It was extremely small and custom. Like alot of the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players I had seen back then. Hi, It's my prototyping board, you can find

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Giovanni
What about Openmoko FreeRunner? regards giovanni On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: > On 01/04/2011 02:04 PM, John O'Donnell wrote: > >> What do you run it on and what do you run? >> I loved my GP2X but I couldnt conceive running armedslack. It was >> extremely small and

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/04/2011 08:38 AM, Giovanni wrote: What about Openmoko FreeRunner? regards giovanni Google is your friend http://www.google.com/search?q=openmoko+freerunner+processor * 400/500 MHz Samsung 2442B Processor/SOC (400 minimum, ARM920T core, ARMv4T) * Unbrickable dual Boot code in N

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Stuart Winter
> Armed works fine on device with 32MB of RAM. Heh. It's called "ARMedslack" or "Slackware ARM". Every time I see "Armed" I get images of men in balaclavas committing a bank robbery ;-) Yes 32MB will work for minimal services like dhcp, dns and stuff like that, but IME not much else! > I like

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:00:10 + (GMT) schrieb Stuart Winter : > > > Armed works fine on device with 32MB of RAM. > > Heh. It's called "ARMedslack" or "Slackware ARM". Every time I see > "Armed" I get images of men in balaclavas committing a bank > robbery ;-) > > Yes 32MB will work for minim