I thought the CPU in the Gameboy was a stripped down Z80. This doesn't seem likely to run Clinux. Clarence
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cLinux on Nintendo Gameboy
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Game Boy Advanced has a 32 bit ARM7TDMI processor (RISC) with a CPU speed of about 16.67 MHz. It has also got its own graphics processor to support the main cpu . The game boy advanced includes a Z80 processor which is used to run games for the old gameboy and gameboy color. You can run eCos on Game Boy Advanced or Game Boy Advanced SP. See
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The Advance and SP models use an ARM7 CPU.
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The GBA doesn't have a Z80 processor anywhere inside. The ARM7TDMI processor can execute both 32-bit ARM instructions and 16-bit thumb instructions. The games for the older game boys use the 16-bit thumb mode for execution.
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What has Thumb got to do with Z80? Thumb code is not Z80 code. Or are you saying that the Z80 emulator happens to be written in Thumb code?
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Are you sure what you are talking about ?
The original GB had a Z80 derivative. The GBA has an ARM7TDMI. So they either put also an Z80 on the ASIC _or_ the ARM cpu emulates the Z80. But this has nothing todo with ARM or THUMB.
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snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (42Bastian Schick) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@News.CIS.DFN.DE: The GBA has a single ASIC contain both an Z80 processor and a 32bit ARM7TDMI. There is a switch beside the cartage connector that tell the GBA which cartage type is plugged into the GBA. For Z80 mode, the cartage runs on a 8bit 5V TTL bus, for ARM mode, the cartage runs on a 16bit 3.3V LVTTL mode.
Hope this clears things up a bit.