From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 27 May 2005 19:23:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from ms-smtp-01-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com ([IPv6:::ffff:65.24.5.135]:17837 "EHLO ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 May 2005 19:23:21 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (cpe-65-24-168-255.columbus.res.rr.com [65.24.168.255]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j4RIMoWY022115; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:23:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Porting To New System From: Cameron Cooper To: Alan Cox Cc: Stanislaw Skowronek , linux-mips@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: <1117217584.5743.229.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1117217584.5743.229.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:21:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1117218075.2921.2.camel@phatbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8002 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: developer@phatlinux.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips > For ucLinux you essentially need a console, an input device (keyboard > etc), a storage device, the ability to allocate memory and a timer > interrupt/callback. Absolutely everything else is optional. So you can > probably run ucLinux as a 'game' which allocates lots of memory, > requests a timer callback and drives the entire world through the > firmware. Whether you can do non-ucLinux depends on MMU access and > control. If you've got some kind of MMU interface then you've probably > got sufficient to do a full Linux but ucLinux would still be a natural > stepping stone in exploration. Thank you, that is a very useful bit of information. I will start with ucLinux. Once (if?) a MMU interface is discovered then I will do a full Linux kernel. Cameron