Re: Porting to different architectures
"Vikas N Kumar" <[email protected]>
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Agreed... What about MIPS chips ? I hear they are pretty popular. And what about custom FPGA chips ? I am not an Elec... engineer, but I am interested as to what kind of operating systems do custom FPGA chips run ? regards, Vikas On 8/1/06, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html