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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Handhelds Mojo - full Linux code distributions for ARM processors
From: "charliem_1216" <>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:13 -0000
--- In  "Martin Guy" <> wrote:
>
> On 4/9/08, Arthur Bebak <> wrote:
> > They've just released Frisky Firedrake, based on Ubuntu 7.04
Feisty Fawn
> > for ARMv5EL and ARMv6EL-VFP architectures (for the TS-7* boards we're
> > interested in the ARMv5EL port I believe for support of the ARM9xxx
> > processors).
> >
> > Load up your SD card, plug it into your TS-7* board...
> 
> You obviously never tried this. ARM9 processors run the ARMv4t
> instruction set and will not run armv5 code.
> ARM9 refers to the CPU core, a complex circuit design by ARM that can
> be etched onto silicon.
> ARMv[456]* refer to the different instruction sets that the cores
can run.
> Yes, it's a confusing numbering system.
> 
>    M

But the marvell chip 88F5182 in the TS-7800 is ARMv5TE, so it could
work, AFAIK.  Should work also with Fedora-ARM, which also chose ARMv5
as a baseline minimum.

BTW, there is a nice article about the orion support in the upcoming
kernel 2.6.25:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5637467946.html

It talks about the TS-7800, and the many COTS NAS devices using the
orion chips.  As somebody else wrote, there are lots of dedicated
communities working on kernel & distro support for this chip, so
TS-7800 hackers should have lots of resources ....

Regards, ......... Charlie

>



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