From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:28:40 +0100 Message-ID: <05b301c6b57f$5e8fbc30$6502a8c0@dionysus> References: <20060801025734.53558.qmail@web51312.mail.yahoo.com> <44CEE649.1000607@nc.rr.com> <1154438542.15540.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <792c60620608010741p247ca932v25263de86da67735@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: "Hans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="response" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas N Kumar" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures > Agreed... What about MIPS chips ? I hear they are pretty popular. I believe that ARM has the number 1,2 and 3 spot in the embedded processor space :-) > And what about custom FPGA chips ? I am not an Elec... engineer, but I > am interested as to what kind of operating systems do custom FPGA > chips run ? uCLinux has been ported to both Altera's NIOS and Xilinx Microblaze processors but I am not sure how many users are using it. I suspect that for a lot of embedded systems Linux might be an overkill. Regards, Hans www.ht-lab.com > > regards, > Vikas > On 8/1/06, Alan Cox wrote: >> 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 >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >