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I'm afraid the lack of an MMU will make running Linux impossible unless things in the kernel have changed dramatically since last looked into this.
by rpledge 12y ago
I'm afraid the lack of an MMU will make running Linux impossible unless things in the kernel have changed dramatically since last looked into this.
- chrisdew 12y ago"Luis Alves’ machine used a regular 68000 at 20 MHz, and got decent performance running ucLinux." ucLinux doesn't need an MMU - that's its reason for existing.
- rpledge 12y agoMissed that - very cool, I hadn't heard of that project.
- vertex-four 12y agoμClinux[0] is still a thing, although is still a fork of 2.6. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux
- wglb 12y agoMMU is not manditory. Coherent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) ran quite nicely both on the original IBM PC/XT and on the Atari ST (No mention in the wikipedia article--I can't remember if it ever escaped the walls of MWC). Coherent on the PC was shown at the National Computer Conference in Houston in 1983. The boot was packed 8 deep the entire show.