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paawan oza wrote:
> My target may be arm/mips.
> but some of the common hurdles are following.
> 
> 1) getting virtual machine which has capability gives me arm processor
> 
> 2) getting the arm linux ISO. 
> 
> Can somebody give me some pointers regarding above ?

There's a nice separation in prec between architecture and
OS/ABI.  You could begin with the arm simulator that comes
built-in to gdb, and do the architecture part before
tackling the Linux ABI part.