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		rjsw 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard? The NetBSD/acorn26 port only supported ARMv2 and ARMv2a [1]. The earm architecture doesn't imply ARMv3, support for that has been removed from gcc which from memory was why the acorn26 port was deleted. [1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/acorn26/

johndoe0815 3 days ago [–]

Thanks, it seems I was confused by ARM3 (the implementation) and ARMv3 (the architecture, but not the one of the ARM3 implementation) once more. Yikes... this is quite a chaos.

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