[ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

[Jim Hawkins]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, John O'Donnell wrote:

> 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.

That page states that the "Zipit Wireless Messenger" has an ARM720T and 
the "Zipit Z2" has an XScale.

Cheers,

Jim