On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:40:29AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>
>>> I maintain LTIB (the tool).  Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd 
>>> recommend using uClinux-dist.  However if LTIB has the exact platform 
>>> you're interested in that may be helpful as it will be known to work out 
>>> of the box.  The compiler used in LTIB should work with uClinux-dist 
>>> notwithstanding some gcc strictness issues (depends on version).  You may 
>>> also find some of the patches to the kernel that are not yet in 
>>> mainstream may be useful.  For platforms with MMUs I'd recommend LTIB 
>>> though (no surprise there).
>> The MCF5484 has a MMU, but linux-2.6.30 (even in uclinux-dist flavour)
>> does not seem to use it : I grep'ped for mmubar in the whole source tree
>> without result.
>> Does the ltib-provided kernel use the mmu ?  And if that's the case,
>> is there an ongoing effort to merge those mmu patches in the uclinux-
>> or Linus' kernel tree ?
>
> I believe the kernel in LTIB does run with the MMU.  The platform 
> abstractions themselves (kernel/bootloader) are maintained by different 
> teams.  You'll need to contact Freescale to find out where there are 
> regarding merging into the mainline.

After reading this : 
http://rtg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/da-sa-txt/sa-steal.pdf

I don't feel anymore it is interesting.

Thanks for your answers

Philippe 
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