On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The StrongARM was developed by DEC, though undoubtedly it was based
> on some work by ARM.
Uh...more than just "based on some work by ARM." It *is* an ARM CPU,
slightly enhanced (mostly in terms of speed) by Digital. The same port
of NetBSD (a free Unix-type operating system) runs on all of ARM's 32-bit
CPUs (the 6, 7, 8 and 9) and the StrongARM.
(Actually, a couple of ports, the DNARD and the CATS, have split due
to some architecture differences, and the same goes for the handhelds
ARM port. However, all of these can share the same userland binaries
[i.e., that part outside of the kernel]. In fact, the vast majority of
the kernel source code is shared, too, but that's true for all NetBSD
kernels on all architectures.)
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/
cjs
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Received on Fri Aug 24 05:09:41 2001