[BusyBox] pre-commit feedback, please

[Stuart Hughes]

Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 00:37, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 29 July 2005 01:08 am, Rob Landley wrote:
>
>>here's the situation as i understand (i may be wrong, i dont use uClinux
>>:P): busybox is already full of __uClinux__ checks simply because fork is
>>not support on that kernel ...
> 
> 
> And that's for historical reasons: I believe Erik used to work for them and 
> they sponsored uClibc and busybox development.  That hasn't been the case for 
> quite some time, and in _theory_ there's no reason for busybox to have 
> special cases for any of this stuff.  uClinux is _not_ the only embedded 
> Linux distro, it isn't even the most widely used one.  (Linksys routers don't 
> use it, and there's zillions of those.)
> 

Isn't the issue more about being able to support MMUless chips, rather 
than the uClinux distribtion ?

Regards, Stuart