Linux on PPC403 (no mmu)

David McCullough davidm at snapgear.com
Sun Oct 2 22:21:00 UTC 2005


Jivin coreyfro at coreyfro.com lays it down ...
> Hey all,
> 
> I am looking for a point in the right direction.  I want to build a linux
> system out of an old PPC403 netstation from IBM, and while I understand
> that there are consiquences to running on a system without an MMU, I want
> to know what I might run in to along the way.  If anyone has any
> experience with these CPU's or MMU-less CPU's in general, I was wondering
> if you can point me to a writeup, give me some pointers, or let me know
> about any other gotcha's about the 403 I might encounter.

Have a look around the FAQ on http://www.ucdot.org/,  that should have
some useful info.  Some of the info in http://www.uClinux.org is a
little old but you may find some good bits.

This one is probably a very good start:

	http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7221

Cheers,
Davidm

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