Cortex-m3 Kernel Port.

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Mon Jan 25 06:20:57 EST 2010


Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 06:15 +0000, Sasa Sasa wrote:
> > What is the status of the cortex-m3 kernel port ? Is it merged to
> > mailine ?
> 
> No and I wasn't planning to unless there are more people using it to be
> worth the maintenance effort (the Cortex-M3 platforms I've seen have too
> little RAM to be able to run Linux).

How much do they have?  People are running uClinux in 8-16MB; it's
tight squeeze but sometimes worth it.  If it has an MMU it would need
a bit less memory.

-- Jamie



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