[uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Valentin Manea
Hi, Sorry for my english, its not my first language. Anyways, I was searching for a cool PhD project and I had this ideea: running a linux environment(kernel & busybox) on a new arhitecture. My question would be how much effort would be needed to see this through? Some notes: the new ar

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Wilshire
Valentin Manea wrote: Hi, Sorry for my english, its not my first language. Anyways, I was searching for a cool PhD project and I had this ideea: running a linux environment(kernel & busybox) on a new arhitecture. My question would be how much effort would be needed to see this through?

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Gray
Valentin Manea wrote: > Hi, > >Sorry for my english, its not my first language. >Anyways, I was searching for a cool PhD project and I had this > ideea: running a linux environment(kernel & busybox) on a new > arhitecture. My question would be how much effort would be needed to > see this

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Schnell
AFAIK, there is Linux for Starcore (even an SDK for VOIP). If it's another CPU this should be a starting point: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5632893349.html -Michael ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Valentin Manea
Hi, there is very little information available, but from what I know until they are using an RTOS for Starcore which runs either independently or with a Linux on a ARM core, but I guess if they would have ported Linux to Starcore they should have released the code under GPL, right? Regards, Valent

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Lokier
Chris Gray wrote: > Valentin Manea wrote: > > Hi, > > > >Sorry for my english, its not my first language. > >Anyways, I was searching for a cool PhD project and I had this > > ideea: running a linux environment(kernel & busybox) on a new > > arhitecture. My question would be how much effor

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: Porting to a new proc

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Lokier
Valentin Manea wrote: > there is very little information available, but from what I know until > they are using an RTOS for Starcore which runs either independently or > with a Linux on a ARM core, > but I guess if they would have ported > Linux to Starcore they should have released the code unde