[LUAU] Intro
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Aug 11 22:59:31 PDT 2004
Jimen Ching wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jim Thompson wrote:
>
>>On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:35 AM, MonMotha wrote:
>>
>>>OK, port Linux to an 8051 with 256 BYTES of RAM and (at most) 64k of
>>>ROM. :-)
>>
>>Ya know, with folks like Cygnal (sorry Silicon Labs) in the business,
>>and Siemens/Infineon with its 32bit ALU in
>>an 8051 clone, how long will it be before we see an 8051 clone that
>>actually could boot linux?
>
>
> Is there a requirement for the 8051? I believe the 2.6 kernel supports
> the H8/300 microcontroller. Granted, the H8/300 is more powerful than the
> 8051, but it's still a microcontroller.
>
> --jc
I think the idea was that in this case Linux was inappropriate :) I really
don't need an oven that runs linux :)
As I later mentioned, in this case the microcontroller was actually talking to a
linux host.
--MonMotha
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