Re: Debian ports for RiscPC, ARM710, etc.

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

>That makes it sound like it would be best to have two distributions.
>One optimized for the new StrongARM-based machines that can handle the
>halfword instructions (ie. NetWinder, EBSA).  And a
>"lowest-common-denominator" distribution that uses the ARMv3
>instruction set (for the ARM710, and RiscPC).

I agree.  And if somebody was sufficiently sick they could even have a go at 
building a 26-bit version for the ARM3. :-)

>make a chroot image so people can play with it.  How does "armv3"
>sound for a distribution name (vs. "arm", which we are using for the
>NetWinder stuff)?

Sounds fine.

p.