On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Richard Atterer wrote: > Does ARMLinux run on pre-StrongARM processors now (in my case, an > ARM710 inside my RiscPC)? IIRC, there was some discussion about this a > few months ago and somebody said "there are a few problems now, but it > should work soon". So, does it?
There have been reports of some not-especially-distinctive failures with ARM710s (apt-get segfaulting a lot, I think) -- I haven't heard that they've been fixed at any point -- I think I asked for information from whoever reported the problem and never received any. Still, this would be as good a time as any to re-open an investigation. :-) > On a related issue, are there any problems with those Kinetic upgrade > cards from Castle? The upgrade consists of StrongARM + SDRAM on the > processor card, IIRC under RISC OS there's a fallback to the (much > slower) motherboard RAM once all the processor-card-RAM is used. Yeah. Some extra RAM bank information would need adding to the kernel, which should be straightforward enough. I think !Linux has a capability to read this information and pass it through, actually. I think Aleph One are working on fixing it. c.
