On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:24:50PM +0530, shiraz.ta@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am new to linux. I am in need of porting linux to a MIPS16 based > processor. I need some information regarding the porting. It will be a > great help if somebody could answer me. > > 1) Is there any port available already for this? If available how do i get > it along with the development environment. > > 2) If the port is not available then how much complex (How much effort ?) > is it to port it to MIPS 16. > > 3) Where can I get the tool chain on windows and linux kernel source code > which can be used . You forgot to mention the exact processor type but anyway, MIPS16 is really just an extension. As such Linux can run on a system without actually knowing anything about MIPS16. Which is nice, if you intend to actually exploit MIPS16 you don't have to have that working right away but can introduce support later, as optimization for size. Windows? Good luck. I've seen success reports with Cygwin but if you want to keep things sane, use a Linux box for development. > 6) I would like to know how much would be the code size for the kernel > alone with out any shell and with the console driver. (Source code and > Binary) To my knowledge nobody has used MIPS16 for Linux so far. There seems little point in that because MIPS16 primarily targets very small systems - a class of systems that Linux doesn't tend to run on well. Ralf
