Re: yet another update to the post-halloween doc

Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-06T17:22:53Z

On 6 Nov 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:
> > Ports.
> > ~~~~~~
> > - 2.5 features support for several new architectures.
> ...
> > - uCLinux. 68k(w/o MMU) and v850 platforms.
>
> A nit, I suppose, but the v850 is not a `platform' in the conventional
> sense of the term, it's a completely new architecture. uCLinux, OTOH,
> is not an architecture, but a tweak to various parts of the kernel to
> remove the requirement for an MMU (yeah I know what you meant, but
> others may not).

Yep, and since there are (unfinished) ports to MMU-less variants of machines
that are already supported by normal Linux, some more uClinux support may
appear in `normal' arch subdirectories in the future.
E.g. MMU-less Atari and Amiga (and Mac, anyone working on that?) are better off
with the platform support in arch/m68k/ than the one in arch/m68knommu/.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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