Re: Kernel support (was: What's the status on Xfree...)
On Wed 29 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote:
> I've no idea what the status is with the riscstation stuff. It's been
> allegedly "almost ready for release" for the last year or so, but I've
> never seen any actual code.
Ben Dooks sent me a mail to say he is now (very soon?) being paid to work on
Armlinux for Simtec full-time rather than doing it in his spare time so maybe
things will now move a bit faster....
> But yeah, if patches did exist that would be a good thing to have support
> for. I don't know whether it's similar enough to a RiscPC that they could
> share a single subarch -- that would be ideal from a release engineering
> standpoint, but there might be technical obstacles.
Until the code reaches the tree the question is academic - we'll see what
happens....
Wookey
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