Re: uclinux on MMU platforms - query

From: Greg Ungerer (gerg@snapgear.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 19:33:40 EST


Hi Alan,

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:46, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>
>> > Can I run uClinux on platforms that has MMU
>>
>>You could, but why would you want to?
>
>
> Being able to run true ucLinux on i386 makes debugging and verification
> of software so much less painful sometimes.

For some things yes. But it is a real pain trying to track
down memory corruption and stack overflow problems in
applications. They have a tendency to take your the whole system...

Regards
Greg

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