At 07:21 PM 7/13/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, �iogo Sperb Schneider wrote:
>
>> Why are you so sure? For Linux to run, all we need is
>> a suitable kernel. Linux kernels were originally
>> intended for i386 machines only, but it has been
>> ported to PowerPC, i286, Amiga and a few others... Why
>> shouldn't it be ported to the Z80?
>
>Because you would have to rewrite the kernel almost completely. Memory
>management, scheduling, etc. It would be a completely different kernel,
>so it wouldn't be Linux. Oh, and there ISN'T a port of Linux for the 286.
>
To the people interested, look after ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel
System), their goal is to have Linux ported to computers which don�t have
MMU, like 286s, XTs... So the MSX.
We can dream about it... Or help Adriano with the Uzix kernel, which WORKS.
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