Hi, I wonder IF linux can be made small enough for some of the embedded chips to boot and then attach an SD card as the file system?
warm regards, wiz On Mon, 10 May 2010 edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: > On 10.05.2010 23:47, Bernhard Loos wrote: > > 2010/5/10 Bernhard Loos <bernhardl...@googlemail.com>: > >> 2010/5/10 Matthias Buecher / Germany <m...@maddes.net>: > >>> The "linux" partition spans over the kernel and the complete rootfs for > >>> flashing. > >>> The maximum kernel size is 0x000bc000 (begin of "rootfs") minus > >>> 0x00040000 (begin of "linux") equals 0x0007c000 (496KB). > >>> > >>> Maddes > >> > >> This is not the maximum kernel size, it's only the current kernel size. > >> You could probably get a few kb more flash space (32 at average) by > >> changing the aligment of the rootfs, squashfs is read only, so it > >> doesn't have to start at an erase block boundary. > > > > To clarify myself, the size is calculated dynamically, so compiling > > stuff into the kernel doesn't gain much. > > > > at least for sqashfs images. All others would profit from it. Are there > other space sensitive platforms? > > ..ede > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
