From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
To: Gregg C Levine <obiwanthejediknight@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: srinivasa.srungaram@wipro.com, Linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ELKS porting to DSP
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:03:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064678581.3184.4.camel@cool> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006401c38505$27c8af20$0100a8c0@who5>
> Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
> I remember. And I also remember that the group told your colleage that ELKS
> was, (still is), an x86 targeted OS. That unlike the actual Linux Kernel, it
> wasn't portable. Oh it could be installed on a Psion, but not here. This DSP
> does not use the x86 instruction set. Your ideas while lofty and good, don't
> work. It would require a major rewrite of the entire kernel, and that's not
> poissible, because it is an x86 targeted one. Your better off, investigating
> my earlier advice, or even trying to port native Linux to it. Some related
> processors are targets.
Major rewrite of the kernel? I'm not familiar with the DSP chip. But
major rewrite is probably never required. The rewrite will take place in
the assembly parts of the kernel and possibly in the memory manager of
the kernel.
--
Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-27 5:44 ELKS porting to DSP srinivas srungaram
2003-09-27 14:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-09-27 16:03 ` Harry Kalogirou [this message]
2003-09-29 0:55 ` Syed Faisal Akber
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2003-09-25 3:20 srinivas srungaram
2003-09-26 15:46 ` Gregg C Levine
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