Hi I have a real fundamental question.. Hoping someone point me to some plausible answers. 1. What is meant by porting of a Operating System??? 2. What does say porting uCLinux onto LPC2148 do to the board.. in the sense that, how does it change its functionality?? thanks heaps techie.
Porting Linux
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Reply by ●November 5, 20062006-11-05
techie.embedded@gmail.com wrote:> Hi > > I have a real fundamental question.. Hoping someone point me to some > plausible answers. > > 1. What is meant by porting of a Operating System???Make the operating system operational on this system> > 2. What does say porting uCLinux onto LPC2148 do to the board.. in the > sense that, how does it change its functionality??It adds the functionality of the operating system Having an ethernet chip on a board means there is an ethernet chip. Adding an OS to it means the board could act as webserver. Rene -- Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com & commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net
Reply by ●November 5, 20062006-11-05
techie.embedded@ gmail.com wrote:>What is meant by porting of a Operating System???Alter the source code as necessary then run it thru a compiler for the desired platform.
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