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Adam Nielsen wrote:
...
>Does anyone know what my chances would be of getting a Linux kernel on it?  I 
>found a couple of precompiled MIPS kernel images (one was ELF32 but the other 
>was ELF64), however when I tried to boot them the terminal simply said "Load 
>address out of range" and aborted.  I was using the precompiled images 
>because I really want to know whether it'll work before I go to the trouble 
>of installing all the cross-compilation tools.

I brought up linux on the PPC403 version of an NCD x-terminal.  As I recall I
had to write program to hack the elf header to get kernels to load.

The project is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/explora-linux/

And the program to hack the kernel elf file is 

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/explora-linux/ncdhack/ncdhack.c

You may get lucky and find they used the same format for MIPS...

-brad