On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, James Ewing wrote:
> The problem with the current romfs is that it essentially embeds a
> compressed file system in the kernel image. This must naturally be
> decompressed into a RAM disk. Not much good when there is only 2 MB to play
> with.
My romdisk patch allows you to treat any area of address space as a read
only block device. Combine this with romfs, and you have a ROM-based
filesystem.
> What I the Stick and other embedded systems need is a true flash file
> system with leveling, write caching, etc. and a flash driver for each
> type of flash hardware implemention.
Define leveling, please. Write caching a flash page at a time should be
easy and the upper levels of the file system already support quite a bit
of caching. This is probably easy. Programming the stick and booting will
be a little harder. Hopefully it already has a serial bootstrapping
routine of some sort.
The SIMM form factor is neat. If these were a bit more powerful, it could
be a cute way to do multiprocessing.
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