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SubjectRe: Porting Linux to a new architecture
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Mike Kilburn wrote:

> Has anyone looked at porting to the Z380. I got a great Z380 platform
> (Its a management card right now) just itching to run Linux. The problem
> with this CPU is it does not have a MMU, just a 32bit flat address space.
> I was sort of hoping someone would port Linux to a cpu with a similar
> arch. No hardware swaping or paging, but with an embedded system thats
> not so bad. Just get rid of all the keyboard and display stuff and other
> unnessassry goodies. You would never need to run big apps like X or
> gcc. A simple single WAN port IP/IPX router or terminal server would
> be the main use for such a device.

This might be closer to the 8088 port, except with 32bit integers, then any
mainstream Linux port.

--
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)




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