On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, John Cushnie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Also the custom system I may have in the future has 1MB of Flash ROM and 1MB
> of Ram resources available.
> Will it be possible to get a minimal usable version of Linux to run on this
> beast ?
You'll be lucky. Linux, as a general rule, needs at least 2 meg to run.
You might just manage to run the kernel directly from flash, and that'll
give you more RAM free, but you're still going to have a hell of a job
doing anything truly linuxy. If you're just after an OS kernel with only
one executable running under it + no real libc, you'll be OK, but anything
more involved and you're going to run out of RAM real fast.
> I was also hoping that I could do the cross-development on a Sun
> SparcStation II using RedHat Linux/Sparc(version 5.2) and the GNU tools and
> cross-compile for the StrongARM environment.
> Anyone have any experience/thoughts on such a configuration for this task ?
Well, I don't know if anyone has tried the GCC etc. cross-compiling from
SPARC to ARM, but there's no *theoretical* reason I can see why it
shouldn't work. YMMV tho.
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