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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