PC/104

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:44:20PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Check out www.embeddedarm.com ... the hardware is excellent and very 
> good for entry level embedded stuff.
> 
> I would say that the MPP board is not related at all to Linux running in 
> cell phones. The MPP board has a completely different market, and would 
> be programmed in assembler, or gcc-m68k if you feel daring. If you used 
> gcc-m68k you would have to compile everything statically - much like the 
> linux kernel. The MPP board is intended for educational purposes - that 
> is, instrumentation and data acuisition - mainly for electrical 
> engineering students.
> 
> However, it is possible to get uClinux to run on the MPP board from what 
> I hear through the grapevine. Forget any sort of filesystem, forget the 
> TCP/IP stack, forget a scheduler, etc. You have pinouts and a serial 
> port. It would be the  least sophisticated Linux port you've ever seen - 
> that's not saying that it wouldn't be damn cool to port it :) And the 
> hardware design for the MPP board was also excellent for it's purpose :)
> 
> Speaking as someone who's programmed for the MPP board, the embedded arm 
> devices above, and soon, the OpenMoko/Neo, I would suggest buying an 
> OpenMoko if you're interested in programming cell phones running linux.

Has anyone every ported uclinux to an 8bit cpu with 32k ram?  I highly
doubt it.  Way too small for a unix system.

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