[CentOS] Porting to RISC

security security at air-austral.com
Mon Jan 22 04:59:42 UTC 2007


John Summerfield a écrit :
> Daniel Rindt wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a
>> RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for
>> RISC? 
>
> Some risc systems are quite big: IBM's Power* and Sun's *sparc* are
> risc systems.
>
> However, for embedded systems, I suspect you're talking about small
> systems, and RHEL/Fedora/CentOS are quite unsuitable. Don't think
> about any of them unless you have _at least_ 256 Mbytes of RAM and a
> few gigglebytes of disk.

512Mb of ram (256 for /var /tmp, 256 for working memory) and 512 of
flash memory for the OS :
You can use RHEL/CENTOS for "big" embedded system (with C3 i686 cpu)
I think you can use 256 mb of ram and 256 mb for flash, but .. it's
still a big one :)




Regards

js.



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