Re: Cleaning up elkscmd and adding help text - Questions

Jody Bruchon <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:26:18 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-8086
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On March 27, 2015 2:19:54 PM EDT, MFLD <[email protected]> wrote:
>I really wonder why you spend time on the ELKS userland... if I have a 
>look to the sizes of uclibc and busybox on a 32 bits embedded system, 
...snip...
>If I take the example of my 80188 system

BusyBox and uClibc don't work on 16-bit segmented architectures with 64K code and data size limits. Linux doesn't either. If you want to run a Linux-like system on an 80x86 where x < 3, you can't use any of the software you just mentioned at all.