Subj : Re: Unix system on Macint
To   : Neal Robles
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Dec 01 2001 01:24 am

-=> Neal Robles wrote to William McBrine <=-

 WM> http://www.uclinux.org/

 NR> Doesn't this require at least a 68030?

No. As it says at the top of that page, "The Linux/Microcontroller project
is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU)." This
is the entire point of it. The only reason that regular Linux won't run on
a 68000 is the lack of an MMU.

 NR> I seem to remember it was originally written for the Motorola 
 NR> Dragonball which is an embeddable version of the 68030 used in PDAs.

I don't know what model of processor the 68k Dragonball is supposed to be
equivalent to, but checking Motorola's spec sheet for it, an MMU is notably
missing. (Newer Dragonballs that include MMUs are based on ARM rather than
68k.) That would seem to make it more like a 68000.

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