NetWinder at GitHub

[Ralph Siemsen]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:28:29PM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:

> You're right, there's no huge gain.  It's my impression that software
> placed on GitHub can get more eyeballs, and makes it easy to cooperate.

There is not really any software development going on, at least as far
as I know. Over in Debian and BSD world, perhaps. Even the fedora-arm
folks do not target our ancient StrongARM processor ;-)

It might be useful for me to upload a copy of the website, so that
other people could help fix link rot. This has been on my personal
todo list for several years but I haven't gotten around to it.
If others want to help out then it might be worth setting it up.
Caveat: I have no experience with github pages, and I would like
to keep the site "simple" (so it can be easily moved).

> I learned that immportant pieces like the firmware has been withdrawn
> due to some legal issue.  If that can't be resolved, I guess there isn't
> a compelling reason to try to copy things to GitHub.

We've had no contact with the owners of the NetWinder "division" for
many years. As such the situation is unlikely to change... perhaps a
more practical solution would be to port a more modern bootloader,
for example u-boot, to run on the NetWinder.

-Ralph