On 2 Dec 98, at 16:18, Oleg Perelet wrote:
> >I'd be interested, but 2MB is still too light. It's enough to get to init
> >in a typical kernel but only barely. The 1MB boot I mentioned earlier was
> >done with a minimal 1.0.9 kernel (from about 5 years ago?) with many
> >corners cut.
> QNX runs fine on 2MB version, stripped out linux kernel is about
> 350K bigger....don't think this can be a problem. Linux romfs
> can be used to get things started on flash. PC on stick is pretty
> good thing to fool around (no big real use:).
>
> Oleg.
Hmm, I guess the real question is what could you do with this thing? You
certainly wouldn't be running apache or anything with such limited resources.
And since it's only real-world I/O is RS-232, I'm not sure what it could be
used for except making a 3 port terminal server (1 port to another server, 3
for modems, and ignore the two 16450 ports...)
Now, it has it's processor bus on the connector, so add ethernet, video,
PCMCIA, A/D's, D/A's, digital I/O, differential transceivers, keypads, LED's,
relays, etc. And then you've got somethin'. And 2MB ought to be enough to run
the Linux kernel and a single custom app, which would take advantage of
threading or TCP/IP or some other Linux provided features--else why bother with
Linux? Hmm.. Actually if a flash file system is written for Linux it would
beat ROMDOS in that respect. The ability to write to the a nonvolatile
filesystem is a real bonus for me. ROMDOS (in my experience so far) makes
drives in flash read-only.
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