Has anyone compiled or found a kernel for a very small SBC?
Mine has a 386 at 25 or 40 MHz I don't remember with only 2
MB of ram and a 8 MB Disk on a Chip sort of HD.
I need very little for this kernel, no terminal will be
connected but RS232 so (I would guess that to be like a
plain terminal).
While I have not built a kernel, I do have old (maybe 8-9
years) versions 1.x.x.x.? I have planned (once I get smart
enough to compile then) I might try that.
Thanks,
Don
Hans-Peter Zorn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mandrake and its derivates as well as stampede and some other
> distributions compile all packages with pentium optimization and will
> not work on older machines. SuSE 6.3 ships with a pentium boot kernel
> on CD1 which will not run on anything below pentium (even not on
> early cyrix "6x86" pentium clones which dont have a TSC) but has a 386
> kernel on CD2. So all this doesn't depend on what "Linux" supports but
> what the distributors decide to do. If you get the sources from the
> net and compile everything without pentium optimizations you can run
> linux 2.2 even on 6MB 386sx I guess. Older distributions will work as
> well. Or use a mini-distribution such as tomsrtb or trinux.
>
> 73s Hans-Peter
>
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