Re: [9fans] Mips kernel

["Noah Evans" <noah.evans@gmail.com>]

Hey David,

Other than a problem with a picky emulator(it didn't like 5l's opcodes
for a few things), 5[acl] seem to work fine with the arm9 in the ds.
Eventually I'm going to try to move as much as I can to thumb, but
right now the tool chain is being very good to me.

Best Regards,

Noah

On 8/4/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/3/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 8/2/07, Noah Evans < noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey David,
> > >
> > > I haven't mentioned it on this list yet, but my summer of code project
> > > has inferno booting on the ds. I can make it to wm/sh. Right now I'm
> > > working on touch screen or wifi support. If you're interested and have
> > > a flash card or an emulator(I like no$gba) I'll hook you up with a
> > > game rom and the source.
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> > > Noah
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> > I'm extremely interested.  Especially in how you got it all compiled :-)
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> > Every time I thought I'd have time to sit down with the toolchain, I ended
> up getting married or buying a house or something :-)
> >
> >
> > I'm hoping I'll have some time for actually playing with this in the near
> future.
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> >
> > Dave
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> Just occurred to me, 5c 5a 5l are for ARM7 it looks like... The DS has ARM7
> AND and ARM9.  ARM9 is used to control wifi and touchscreen, and the two
> CPUs communicate via a FIFO.
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> So... do we have an ARM9 compiler?  :-)
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> Sounds like we might need one.
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> Dave
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> > > On 8/3/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On 8/2/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > There is some interest from this quarter: http://sicortex.com/
> > > > >
> > > > > in a MIPS port. yes, of Plan 9.
> > > > >
> > > > > While it is cool to keep old dead hardware going, I wish I could
> > > > > entice you folks to look at embedded boards with the 4-core mips
> chip.
> > > > > Same processor as in sicortex. Much more useful to the world at
> large.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > ron
> > > > >
> > > > 4 core mips eh?  That's pretty interesting.
> > > >
> > > >  I need to get back into playing around with the nintendo DS again.  I
> just
> > > > wish I had more free time to do so...
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