Re: Porting to different architectures

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.x8086
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Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 01:27 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jody Bruchon:
> On top of that, the 8088 isn't really even used in embedded stuff 
> anymore AFAIK.  From what I understand, the embedded Intel CPU of choice 
> is an i386EX and that likely can run Linux unmodified.

Some of the embedded 386 chips can some can't. Not all of them have a
paging MMU some have just segmentation. Nowdays the CPU of choice seems
to be either the VIA fanless processors or the AMD (ex Nat Semi) Geode
system on a chip, both of which are Pentium class or higher

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