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 >  Some time ago, there was talk about porting BSD (net2 i presume)
 > to the pc532. Is anyone working on it, or did the idea just fade
 > away? If not, is there anything organized or just some solitude
 > hacking?
 > 
 >  I have recently (ie. today) been thinking about setting up a
 > crosscompiling environment for the pc532 on our sparcserver. The
 > purpose is trying to port BSD (didn't guess that, did you? ;) Have
 > anyone else already done this or do I have to start from scratch?
 > 
 >  I guess gcc and gas are the best choices for compiling, and ld, ar,
 > ranlib and libc is available both from FSF and the net2 release. Do
 > I need anything else?

I have done this (cross compiling on a sparc, not porting bsd). I can
successfully cross compile mach on a Sparc II for the pc532. Gcc2 and
gas work without change (well, I know of one gas bug unrelated to
cross compiling but apart from that gas works).

The binutils (ld, ar, ranlib etc) are a bit more of a problem. I
believe the current binutils support cross compilation, but I don't
know if it supports the 532. There were significant changes required
to support the 32k series in earlier versions of binutils. I sent in
the changes, but never checked to see if they made it. I am using an
old version of binutils with added support for endian independence and
32k support.

Ian