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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:20:30 +1000
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Subject: Re: uclinux on MMU platforms - query
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Hi David,

David Weinehall wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:33:40AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:46, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Can I run uClinux on platforms that has MMU
>>>>
>>>>You could, but why would you want to?
>>>
>>>
>>>Being able to run true ucLinux on i386 makes debugging and verification
>>>of software so much less painful sometimes. 
>>
>>For some things yes. But it is a real pain trying to track
>>down memory corruption and stack overflow problems in
>>applications. They have a tendency to take your the whole system...
> 
> 
> Wouldn't an ucLinux-version of uml be a good idea? :-)

Yeah :-)

We sort of have better than that now. There are quite a few
emulators that run under standard Linux that will quite happliy
run uClinux. There is xcopilot (m68328), coldfire (5206),
ARMulator (ARM), tsim (SPARC leon) and or1ksim (OPENcores OR1000).
I am sure there is more!

Regards
Greg


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