Re: uclinux on MMU platforms - query

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 06:42:44 EST


On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:33:40AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 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...

Wouldn't an ucLinux-version of uml be a good idea? :-)

Regards: David Weinehall

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