> BIOSless, from memory mapped flash, w/ little RAM. I had figured that a system
> with memory mapped flash *COULD* have the kernel's static (read-only) part--
> code and constants in flash, and decompress the r/w data section into RAM. We
> could probably get by with VERY little ram for the kernel this way, although
> I'm not sure how much code vs. data there actually is in the kernel.
Yes, this is the clincher. But we need to do this for all programs, not just
the kernel.
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