[sclug] Linux for really weird hardware?

[David Given]

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On 26/01/10 22:24, Andy Hayward wrote:
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> Lack of floating point hardware might be a issue.

Yes, the DSL kernel doesn't work on the device, complaining about no FPU
(and the DSL people haven't bothered to include the FPU emulator, the
cads). The same goes with Tinycore.

I have got tomsrtbt booting --- it's based on the 2.2 kernel and is very
small. Unfortunately while it claims to do PCMCIA it doesn't appear to
do anything useful with it.

It would appear my next step is, unfortunately, to build my own kernel.

(Still, I've discovered that it's got a 33 bogomip processor and a whole
15MB of internal storage! More usefully, a CF card in the slot turns up
as an IDE device so I don't need an initrd. *And* I've found my 1GB CF
card.)


(PS. Please don't cc me if you're mailing the list. I don't need two
copies!)

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