From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:59 -0400 Received: from pacific.moreton.com.au ([203.143.238.4]:35556 "EHLO dorfl.internal.moreton.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB3AABC.2040208@snapgear.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:20:28 +1000 From: Greg Ungerer Organization: SnapGear User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Rob Landley Subject: Re: Rob Landley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Rob, Rob Landley wrote: > If your patch isn't on the list, speak out now. Better yet, post a URL to the > latest version. It's "show me the code" time. (Yes, Hans Reiser, this means > you. :) There are still 7 days till the end of Linus's cruise, but that's > not much time to get guinea pigs to publicly pipe up with a hearty "AOL!" of > support for your work... Here's another feature I would like to see go in: MMU-less procesor support. Latest patches for the memory management changes are at: http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.5.x/linux-2.5.44uc0-mm.patch.gz The core of this stuff has been around for years (earliest in 2.0.33), with a _lot_ of users (easily > 50000). And specifically these patches have been tracking every 2.5 release pretty much since it started. The other important peice with this is the FLAT format exe loader (binfmt_flat), patch at: http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.5.x/linux-2.5.44uc0-binflat.patch.gz To make this truely useful though you also need some new archiecture support. Up to date patches for 2 of these are at: http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.5.x/linux-2.5.44uc0-m68knommu.patch.gz http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.5.x/linux-2.5.44uc0-v850.patch.gz These support the non-VM 68k processors (683XXX and ColdFire), and the NEC v850 family. [We have many more (ARM, SPARC, i960, etc) but they are not 2.5 ready yet]. Also some drivers to go along with this, but I won't bother listing them here. See my other emails on the list for those patches... Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Chief Software Wizard EMAIL: gerg@snapgear.com SnapGear Pty Ltd PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: www.SnapGear.com