On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:02:43AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:36:33AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   perhaps a silly question but, given that the uClinux project is
> > > devoted to linux on MMU-less processors, why does the stock kernel
> > > tree have that single MMU-less port -- m68knommu -- and no other?
> >
> > Bogus question - e.g. the blackfin and h8300 ports in the stock kernel
> > are for MMU-less processors.
> 
> whoops, you're right, my mistake.  but the question remains -- why are
> *some* MMU-less architectures supported in the stock kernel and not
> others?  or is it just a matter of someone working hard enough to get
> that architecture accepted and maintaining it?

The latter.

There are also MMU-ports that are not part of the stock kernel.

> rday

cu
Adrian

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