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From: "Vikas N Kumar" <vikasnkumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures
Agreed... What about MIPS chips ? I hear they are pretty popular.
I believe that ARM has the number 1,2 and 3 spot in the embedded processor
space :-)
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 ?
uCLinux has been ported to both Altera's NIOS and Xilinx Microblaze
processors but I am not sure how many users are using it. I suspect that for
a lot of embedded systems Linux might be an overkill.
Regards,
Hans
www.ht-lab.com
regards,
Vikas
On 8/1/06, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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