> I am experimenting with the Disk On Chip eval. Board with the Linux
> drivers, and it works great. However, the cost of this device is
> still quite high for most low-cost Internet Appliances. A large part
> of this cost (about US30-50) goes to licensing the file system code
> from M-systems, which is bundled with the cost of this device,
>
> M-systems will probably hate me for this, but is anybody considering
> writing a cheaper version of these drivers to drive down the cost of
> this great Linux-based solution. I will certainly be willing to pay
> up to $10 ea. for quantities 10,000 or more.
>
Well, the 2.1 kernels seem to have a romfs, or rom-based file system.
I don't know if this helps.
-- cary
>
> Regards,
> Ivo Zivkov
> Faxtel inc.
> www.faxtel.com
>
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