Jivin Gilles Ganault lays it down ...
> Hello
>
> I'm a self-taught programmer, and have absolutely no experience
> working with embedded appliances.
>
> I was wondering...
>
> 1. How do you check that a Linux application can run OK on uClinux,
> especially with an MMU-less CPU like the Blackfin
>
> 2. What makes it easy/hard/impossible to port a Linux application to
> such configuration?
>
> from what I understood, problematic issues are the lack of fork(),
> MMU-less CPU's require that the application manage its own memory to
> avoid RAM being fragmented, etc.
A little old, but most of what you need to know is here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7221
And there is plenty more on the web to read if you need it :-)
On blackfin you also get fdpic for binaries/executbales/libs, which give
you even more options under uClinux.
Cheers,
Davidm
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David McCullough, david_mccullo...@mcafee.com, Ph:+61 734352815
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