From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jody Bruchon <jbruchon@nc.rr.com>
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:22:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154438542.15540.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CEE649.1000607@nc.rr.com>
Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 01:27 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jody Bruchon:
> On top of that, the 8088 isn't really even used in embedded stuff
> anymore AFAIK. From what I understand, the embedded Intel CPU of choice
> is an i386EX and that likely can run Linux unmodified.
Some of the embedded 386 chips can some can't. Not all of them have a
paging MMU some have just segmentation. Nowdays the CPU of choice seems
to be either the VIA fanless processors or the AMD (ex Nat Semi) Geode
system on a chip, both of which are Pentium class or higher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 14:09 Porting to different architectures chriscureau
2006-07-31 15:00 ` Hans
2006-07-31 15:35 ` Richard Wallman
2006-07-31 16:03 ` David Given
2006-07-31 16:24 ` Richard Wallman
2006-07-31 16:32 ` David Given
2006-07-31 17:42 ` Jody Bruchon
2006-08-01 6:49 ` Richard Wallman
2006-08-01 17:15 ` Segin
2006-07-31 19:47 ` Javier Sedano
2006-07-31 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-01 2:57 ` Tom McCabe
2006-08-01 5:27 ` Jody Bruchon
2006-08-01 13:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-01 14:41 ` Vikas N Kumar
2006-08-01 15:28 ` Hans
2006-07-31 15:16 ` Petr Koval
2006-07-31 15:29 ` CVS access Mattia Jona-Lasinio
2006-07-31 15:43 ` Petr Koval
2006-07-31 15:51 ` Petr Koval
2006-08-02 13:24 ` Mattia Jona-Lasinio
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