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Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:26:45 +0200
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a2fan@nnnn.org wrote:
> Can a GS run any flavor of Linux, even a most basic version or is it
> simply out of the GS's capability?
I doubt it. A MMU that supports paging is a minimum requirement for any
reasonably standard Linux, and as far as I know the GS doesn't have one.
The reasoning is the same as for the 286, which since it has no paging
MMU can't run even early versions of Linux created when it was still a
fairly common CPU, while compiling the kernel for the 386, which has a
paging MMU, is possible even today. This is a fairly absolute
borderline. There were attempts of a port to 286, but it never became
part of the standard kernel because it required changes all over the
place, not just a new low-level code.
Apart from this, I don't think the low-level parts of the kernel were
ever ported to the 65816.
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Linards Ticmanis