uClinux for Nios II general question.

Altera_Forum · ‎05-15-2010

This is not a technical question.

I want to know several think about the history of linux on nios ans nios II.

- What is exactly the microtronix release ?

- The uClinux from www.uclinux.org contains an arch folder named nios2nommu (since the uClinux-dist-20060803 release). Why is it not enough to build uClinux for the Nios II ? So why did you create the distribution which is on the nios wiki at http://www.niosftp.com/pub/uclinux/nios2-linux-20090730.tar ?

- Why is the distribution in the Nios wiki not merge in the uClinux project ?

Altera_Forum · ‎05-17-2010

Please see,

http://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/pipermail/nios2-dev/2010-may/003966.html

Altera_Forum · ‎05-17-2010

While all this is related to the no-MMU distribution, IMHO the much more interesting one is the MMU-based "Full"-Linux distribution maintained together with the no-MMU flavor in the NIOS-Wiki, the NIOS Forum and the mailing list.

The MMU-based distribution originally had been done by WindRiver (payed by Altera) and now is maintained here as a fast evolving open-Source project.

-Michael