On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:38:33PM -0700, pion wrote: > I’m interested in porting OpenBSD to the Nuvoton NUC980, which uses an > ARM926EJ-S core. I discovered that arm9 support was removed in 2016 and found > the relevant patches in tech@. It seems that the rationale was that arm8/9 > platforms were not being used with OpenBSD and were therefore a source of > dead code. > > I am strongly motivated to help bring back enough arm9 support to get the > NUC980 chip going and deploy it onto the Nuvoton Chili eval board. This is an > extremely compact 100Mbit Ethernet-capable board running at 300 MHz and is > perfect for IoT devices and compact servers. It would be very helpful to have > guidance from more experienced developers here. Is anyone interested in > working with me to bring back support? I am happy to ship hardware to anyone > who is interested. > > Thanks, > > -p >
We switched to eabi, require vfp floating point, armv7 atomics/barriers, switched to clang and have a different pmap. armv4 would be a different arch/toolchain you'd have to build/maintain yourself out of tree at this point.
