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Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Setting up for Microblaze work.

Hi David,

David H. Lynch Jr wrote:

Greg Ungerer wrote:

Hi David,

David H. Lynch Jr wrote:

    While I am not new to Linux Kernel work, or Board support, I am new
to uClinux.

    There clearly seems to be a uClinux way to do things, that is
distinctly different from the normal Linux Kernel developers approach.

That is surprising. What exactly do you think is different?
Are they purely architecture differences here?
Or more than that? 

    uClinux is a complete integrated development environment, set of
tools, applications, etc. for putting together
an embedded system running Linux. As a project it compares more
favorably to a distribution such as embedded Debian.
Linux Kernel development is about the Linux kernel.


You are confusing the uClinux-dist and uClinux. uClinux-dist is
the complete integrated environment. uClinux is the set of extensions
that are added to Linux to support MMUless processors.



    Implicit in formally wrapping everything together is the presumption
that there is what a preacher I once new would call
    "the only best" way of doing things.


Well, I don't know about that, but uClinux-dist is one easy way
of building a complete running system.

For architecturss like ColdFire you can just get any Linus
2.6 kernel and compile quite happily. I am sure one day not
too soon you will be able to do this for microblaze too.



    I am extremely happy that uClinux is feeding the kernel proper. If
MicroBlaze support was already in the kernel.org trees
I would just use it from there.


Regards
Greg



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