Re: Porting to different architectures

Vikas N Kumar
2006-08-01T14:41:36Z

Agreed... What about MIPS chips ? I hear they are pretty popular.
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 ?

regards,
Vikas
On 8/1/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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
>
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