Not so much glibc as eglibc... and it's not just a question of size on flash, but the footprint of the running SO as well... with an SO, you can't do a partial load. It's all there, including all the pieces that are never used (like iconv).
There are some very nice ARM and MIPS SoC platforms right now. On 9/8/10 6:49 AM, Chris Abnett wrote: > I think it would be nice to dump uclibc in favor of glibc for sure... I > realize space constraints were an issue in the past.. but really we are > dealing with flash cards in the gigabytes now and not megabytes.. so having > a few extra megs in there wont hurt things > > I agree with so many small and low power consumption x86 hardware out there, > and getting less costly all the time too...that supporting non-standard > targets might end up being a lot of work, only to find that particular > device discontinued a short time later... im not saying blackfin will be > discontinued.. > > but it seems there are already other linux developments for blackfin? > > -Christopher > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darrick Hartman [mailto:dhart...@djhsolutions.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:25 AM > To: astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] astlinux in blackfin > > On 09/07/2010 08:09 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> On 9/8/10 2:39 PM, Meftah Tayeb wrote: >>> hi, >>> doe is it pocible to run astlinux in blackfin? >>> thank you >>> >> It currently isn't: we're tied to runnix and x86 architecture, which is > one reason we've been considering moving toward openwrt as a platform > framework. > > We've been looking at different platforms for future AstLinux > development. I know Philip and I disagree on this, but I don't see us > supporting blackfin or other non x86 targets. With the number of > available small x86 target devices, it's hard to justify the development > effort to support alternative architectures. > > Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
