Andrew Ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > > I haven't seen the numbers on the dreaded size overhead. So > > > that argument does not yet convince me. If I can fit a whole IP/UDP > > > stack a network driver, and printk in 16K I have trouble seeing > > > the problem. > > multiply that by, let's just say 4, for 4 elf payloads for 4 functions. > > At that point, I can no longer fit a kernel + linuxbios in 1 MB flash. At > > present I can barely fit one linuxbios + 1 stripped kernel. > > I am right on the edge of being able to fit right now. Either I statically > > link in the VGABIOS code or I can't fit it. That's the issue for me. > > Yes, I am well aware that we hope to have more compact ROMCC code, but > > that is not there right now. > Maybe we can separate LinuxBIOS into 2 parts. The first part contains > the core of LinuxBIOS, and the second part contains different extensions > for different archs and elf loader at the end. We could have something > like the following in the config which is pretty much like Ron suggested
We already have LinuxBIOS separated into 2 parts, and the ELF loader is the glue between them. What we don't have is a good second part to hold the Video code, and other random hacks. Except for possibly Steve James bare metal toolkit. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios