Re: Porting to different architectures

Alan Cox
2006-08-01T13:22:22Z

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