Various people have provided help and support over the life time of
Slackware ARM's development.  Big thanks to:

 - Patrick Volkerding [Slackware Founder and Project Coordinator]
    * For Slackware 
    * Explaining the undocumented Slackware mysteries
    * Assisting with the Slackware AArch64 port
    * Answering my many questions

 - Brent Earl [Slackware team, Slackware ARM R&D]
    * Co-developing Slackware AArch64 (ARM 64bit), research, development,
      testing, documentation and keeping me sane!

 - Jim Hawkins [Original Slackware ARM full stack hacker]
    * Full stack hacking, assisting with initial boot strapping on the RiscPC.
    * Answering ARM specific questions
    * Patching software to build with gcc 3.4
    * Submitting a patch to qemu to enable it to build gcc 3.4.
      Without this I could not have built the first Slackware ARM gcc-3.4 package
      build that enabled me to build natively (and to have a working gcc package!)
    * Answering the most ridiculous and stupid questions known to mankind with
      "Oh Stuart.  <long technical explanation followed by a proof of concept, hack or patch>"
    * Fixing almost *anything* that doesn't work, and having no idea
      what he's fixing or why, but always making it work.

 - Peter Naulls (Debian ARM developer)
    * Advice, guidance and support for ARM Linux
    * Writing the RapIDE driver, fixing other Kernel stuff
    * Asking me how Slackware ARM was coming along; embarassing me into 
      doing some work
    * Letting me use his NetWinder and Iyonix to build and test some
      of my early cross-compiled ARM binaries.
    * Fixing !LinLoader (RISC OS Linux Loader) to work on the RiscPC
    * Having a dog that doesn't set my asthma off  ;-)

 - The Scratchbox team (lle, thain et al) (http://www.scratchbox.org)
    * Without Scratchbox, Slackware ARM probably would have never happened.
      Scratchbox enabled me to cross-compile the base Slackware system
      on my x86 Slackware system.

 - David Cantrell [Slackware team, Slackware SPARC developer]
    * The Slackware SPARC port's build system was used as a reference
      for the ARM port.
    * David's "protopkg" tool was used as a reference for the original
      "slackkit" Slackware ARM package building tool.

 - Mark Post [Slackware team, Slack390 developer]
    * For answering some of my Slackware questions 
    * Slack390's source tree - some of Slackware ARM's scripts are based on
      Slack390's or use bits from them.

 - Darren Austin
    * Suggestions for the cross-platform build system
    * Suggestions for slacktrack (my package build script with which some
      of Slackware ARM packages are built)

 - Debian ARM developers, Russell King and the other ARM developers:
    * For their ARM patches upstream.  Without much of the work from the
      Debian developers, Slackware ARM simply would not be possible!

 - Mario Stabrey (Orlan) [Slackware community, Alphaslack (Slackware on DEC Alpha)]
    * For both finding & creating gcc/glibc-2.3.x patches and providing
      a convenient source from which I could steal them :-)

 - Peter Teichmann 
    * Kernel patches; X.org patches; other patches; config files..

 - Timothy Baldwin
    * Porting GRUB to RISC OS; updating the infozip patch for RISC OS file
      types; Kernel patches

 - Alan Hourihane
    * Patching GRUB to work with machines with >128M RAM
    * Patching away some Kernel & X.org problems 

 - Sunil Amitkumar Janki
    * Building the first modular X.org packages
    * Various suggestions and help

And last but not least:
 - You, the Slackware ARM community
    * Feedback and support to pay for hardware, hosting and so on.

Thanks!

-- 
Stuart Winter
<mozes@slackware.com>
Original: 20-Apr-2009
Revised : 09-Mar-2024