On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:45:00AM +0530, Vishak V. Kurup wrote: > I have worked with arm...but it is a night mare for me... > > [snip] > > ..the os I used was montavista linux ... There you have the explanation. :-) *runs* More seriously, don't blame the CPU for the shortcomings of the distro you were using. There are enough distros that run on ARM that aren't similarly crippled.