Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:43:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:43:15 -0400 Received: from server0027.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.36]:18907 "EHLO server0027.freedom2surf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:43:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:02:02 +0100 From: Ian Molton To: Gigi Duru Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? Message-Id: <20021006140202.45cb9100.spyro@f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <20021005205238.47023.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021005205238.47023.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: The Dragon Roost X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3cvs4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 21 On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Gigi Duru wrote: > > Now thats some advice from a kernel hacker... You > really don't seem to care too much about embedded, do > you? I do. I have to. Im porting the Linux kernel to the arm26 architecture (repairing the long dead port by Russell King). Even on these tiny, 15 year old machines, the kernel will EASILY fit into their ROMs, with bags of room to spare. The biggest machine EVER of this type has only 16 MB of RAM. most have 2-4MB. Some even have MFM harddiscs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/