On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Chad <chad.page@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Z2 has an MMU'd ARM chip and 32MB of RAM... which actually makes > it more powerful (aside from FPU) than the computer I had when I > worked on ELKS in the first place. :) > > In fact, it's quite a bit like a Ben Nanonote, but much less open and with wifi. > > - Chad, > who thinks something ELKS-like on larger Cortex M3 microcontrollers > someday'd be cool. > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Angel M Alganza <ama@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is anybody still alive? Is someone doing some work on ELKS at all? >>> >>> I am getting my first couple of Zipit Z2 messengers this week and I >>> was wondering if it would be possible at all to ever run a version >>> of ELKS on one of them. I think the Z2 is a great small device which >>> would be excellent to run a small operating system with a tiny kernel, >>> perhaps a Linux kernel subset? :-) Was ELKS ever compiled or thought >>> to be run on ARM processors? Would it be at all possible? >>> >>> Regards. >>> Ángel >>> -- >>> >> >> Hello! >> List is just asleep as we are busy with other things. Indeed not. The >> ELKS kernel was originally targeted towards the 8086, and then >> extended to accommodate the 80286 device. >> >> However there is already an excellent kernel and user-land for the Z2. >> There's also an excellent list for the thing hosted on the Yahoo >> Groups pages. >> >> I suspect someone there as already had that thought..... >> ----- >> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx >> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." >> -- Hello! Correct Chad, (Incidentally I've not forgotten about your school period projects, just had other business interfering.) I'm not saying it won't work Angel. Never that. Just that porting the code over to that unit, might be difficult. And more interesting. Ideally what I want to see, is a ELKS/Minix/Linux (like) shell and user land running on a custom setup built using the bit-slice processors that AMD built during the early part of the computer generation. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
