[ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

[John O'Donnell]

On 01/04/2011 07:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote:
>
>
>>> It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as
>>> far as I can tell.
>>
>> Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X has a
>> 940T co-processor)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipit_Wireless_Messenger_%28Z2%29
>
> So this must be a newer version?
>
> Even this version with 32MB RAM isn't suitable.  I don't even think
> Slackware on x86 can really run reliably in 32MB of RAM.
>
> So I'm not exactly concerned about this device :)

Dunno.  I went off the entry in the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
Which says ARM720T.  must be wrong.

I have a 386 40mhz AMD with a 387 coprocessor (ISA SCSI 9gb Seagate / 32MB Ram - 
huge for the day) in storage.  Would love to test that theory... But another 
year maybe ;-)

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