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Russell King - ARM Linux Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Teichmann writes:
> > Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yes. You could also try downloading precompiled binaries, say from
> > > Debian, rather than bootstrapping your entire system from scratch
> > > (which is tedious and not entirely trivial). You will still need
> > > to build your own kernel since they don't currently have
> > > explicit support for the RiscPC.
> >
> > But aren't the precompiled binaries all for armv4 architecture, and the
> > RiscPC IOMD does not support 16 bit wide memory accesses?
>
> Peter, you are 100% correct here. As far as I know, there are no
> pre-compiled binaries available for the RiscPC yet. There are a couple
> of people looking into creating a set.
Russell, you are 50% wrong here. After removing a few files Debian will
work on Risc PCs, I have it running on mine. However the usual disclaimer
about it being an incomplete unstable distribution applies.
Also, I intend to upload a biuld of Russell next stable kernel to
my web site.
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