Re: Porting to different architectures

Hans
2006-08-01T15:28:40Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vikas N Kumar" <vikasnkumar@users.sourceforge.net>
To: <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
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 <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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