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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Porting ELKS
Date: 19 Jul 2003 21:12:46 +0100
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On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 11:57, Raghavan wrote:
> (1) Does ELKS take advantage of the MMU facility of the x86 Systems ?. I ask
> this because the Blackfin does not.

ELKS uses the segmentation on the 8086 CPU.

> (2) What would be a good strategy to start the porting exercise ? Any
> previous porting lessons would help.

It depends what you need the OS for and what size you want. eCOS is
probably the better embedded OS and there is mmuless support in the 2.6
development Linux kernels if you want the full thing.