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List:       linux-arm-kernel
Subject:    Re: XIP?
From:       Nicolas Pitre <nico () cam ! org>
Date:       2004-04-19 18:08:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0404191404430.21833-100000 () xanadu ! home
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Mark Beckwith wrote:

> Hi guys, I just got informed from my client that:
> 
> "XIP is CRITICAL to this project.  If this won't work, we need to know it
> ASAP and will need to re-evaluate our approach.  Resolving the issues with
> XIP needs to be your top priority, above trying to reduce code size or
> working on additional drivers."
> 
> The target platform has 2M of flash and 2M of Ram.

And where should be the root filesystem?  In flash as well?
Don't forget that XIP means everything is uncompressed, and 2MB of flash to 
hold both the uncompressed kernel and filesystem is... well... extremely 
tight.  With such limited memory you should probably consider something else 
than Linux.


Nicolas


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