Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Feb 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > If I hadn't heard of very simple versions of unix running in 64K of > > ram. I probably would be impressed. The unfortunante thing here is > > that with user space ~= 16K you still don't have room for linuxbios. > > Unless there is still room to cut down 9teeny. > > yes but note this thing includes tcp and ssl for boot. It's pretty > interesting.
And it had SMP support compiled in, so there is some hope. In any event. What I would call a real target is to get the bootloader down to 160K (kernel + user space + decompression code). If whatever we use can hit that mark we can have 2 copies of LinuxBIOS in the ROM, one setup as a fallback image. And one setup with as the normal case with a nice bootloader. Eric
