> armish is XScale 80219, ARMv5TE. Newer and faster than this, but even so,
> a full ports build on the thecus n2100 armish box took around 3 months
> when I last did one.

About my device it's really interesting, because support to the XScale
but with ARMv4T instructions

> Take a look at the commit log in the armv7 directories to get some kind
> of idea of the work involved in bringing up an architecture based on
> an existing similar-ish one.

The commit log from github?


>Though what you don't see there is the
> amount of work actually involved in reading specs, other code, reverse
> engineering, talking, debugging that goes into writing each diff.

I know, in this moment I try to find more technics information. I have
too watched the codes about the instructions from Android, but If Can
I add the support from OpenBSD about this device for me It's better.

> The developers who can do that are mostly looking at armv7 and
> particularly arm64 at the moment, where there is still a lot to be done.
> Honestly I don't think any are going to put in time to support a machine
> which is less useful than the zaurus unless there's something they find
> particularly interesting about it..

I know now the focus are the new armv7's generations, but my
philosophy is to recycle the old from trashware culture with free
software. Now I want see the source of armish to verify how many parts
of codes It's need to modify to support the ARMV4T. But thanks to
reply, every information can be useful.


Mike from Green Monster Games

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