From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:41:03 -0800 Received: from [208.170.106.25] ([208.170.106.25]:9744 "EHLO blackdog.wirespeed.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:40:42 -0800 Received: from redhat.com (IDENT:joe@dhcp-242.hsv.redhat.com [172.16.17.242] (may be forged)) by blackdog.wirespeed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA12094; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:33:39 -0600 Message-ID: <3A95F83D.9030600@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:42:21 -0600 From: Joe deBlaquiere Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010217 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Crossfire , kjlin , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Does linux support for microprocessor without MMU? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > >> >> There isn't (yet) support for MIPS on uClinux. > > > But it can't be that hard to add support for it... > Porting the kernel isn't much worse than any other architectural port. Of course that's only a part of the story, since you'll need to port the C library (uClibc/uC-glibc) and you will have to play around with the object file format to make it work with FLAT binaries... If you're serious about doing uClinux you can find a somewhat cryptic article on porting to uClinux at: http://www.redhat.com/embedded/technologies/resources -- Joe