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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. But the Z80 is a 8 bit CPU. Linux was never ported to any 8 or 16 bit architectures - for rather obvious reasons.
by perbu 9y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. But the Z80 is a 8 bit CPU. Linux was never ported to any 8 or 16 bit architectures - for rather obvious reasons.
- qubex 9y agoLinux was never ported to 16- or 8-bit hardware but through the magic of Turing completeness and emulation somebody did actually manage to get an 8-bit micro-controller: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20... (Yes, this is so convoluted, and so unusable, that it basically reinforces, rather than refutes, your point.)
- pacaro 9y agoWell, the ELKS[1][2] project has been working on a 16bit port on and off since the late 90s. At one point Alan Cox[3] was an active contributor. [1] http://elks.sourceforge.net/ http://elks.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/jbruchon/elks https://github.com/jbruchon/elks [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox
- pk3 9y agoELKS is an excellent example as well as uClinux[1], which has made its way to a few 16-bit platforms[2]. [1] http://www.uclinux.org/ http://www.uclinux.org/ [2] http://elinux.org/images/6/68/Porting_uClinux_CELF2008_Griffin.pdf http://elinux.org/images/6/68/Porting_uClinux_CELF2008_Griff...