> Pardon the inane question, but how possible would it > be to port Hurd to processors like > 68328/68EZ328/etc... (yes, palm pilots...) ? > > One would start with the mach microkernel right? Sure, porting Mach is absolutely necessary, as far as the Hurd is concerned. But the Hurd requires a lot of resources right now, and I doubt that palmtops provide enough RAM right now.
Other version of Mach support more that just i386. For example, osfmk (http://www.mklinux.org/) supports HP_PA as well and rtmach supports alpha, i386, luna88k, parisc, m88k, mips. It was done before, so doing this for gnumach/oskit-mach should be possible as well. > I've been testing/debugging uClinux for about a year > now and came across an article (via slashdot) The slashdot article is a bit skewed ;-) > mentioning Hurd and embedded devices. I had read about > Hurd before and it seems like it might have some > interesting advantages over linux for embedded devices > (highly configurable and able to be small). Look at RTEMS, if you're interested in kernels for embedded devices. RTEMS supports a lot of architectures and it's free software too: http://www.oarcorp.com/RTEMS/rtems.html Regards, -Farid. -- Farid Hajji -- Unix Systems and Network Admin | Phone: +49-2131-67-555 Broicherdorfstr. 83, D-41564 Kaarst, Germany | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - Murphy's Law fails only when you try to demonstrate it, and thus succeeds.
