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16 years ago

Linux with MMU on NEEK

Hi, all. I'm testing Linux MMU version, on my NEEK. http://www.nioswiki.com/linux It works fine and I can use "bash" shell. This is the evident proof that we are using the true 'fo...
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16 years ago

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The most difficult thing is 'who will do it?'.:D

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I do hope for Yourself and Hippo ;). I also hope that I can get up to more speed soon after the holidays....

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I think this is caused by the incomplete implementation of Nios's linker.

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That might be a disaster, as Hippo can impose pathes on the Linux build system configuration and supposedly on the libraries, but I don't think that anybody is working on the gnu gcc tools themselves, which I suppose are in the state MontVista left them in and nobody yet ever took a look at the internals, if at all the "official" (and verified) sources are available to the community. (Did anybody yet recompile the new gcc-nios ? AFAIK, the current official tool chain still is "binary" <other than the no-MMU-tool-chain>.)

-Michael