Cortex-m3 Kernel Port.

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:20 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.

Cortex-M3 doesn't have an MMU. I managed to run it in 2MB but not many
commands were successful. I think from 4MB onwards it should be
acceptable.

-- 
Catalin