Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:06:57 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: Porting Linux to a new architecture |
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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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