Re: Conserving memory for an embedded application

Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:59:45 +1000


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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:53, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> One question I have is whether it is possible to burn an uncompressed image
> of the kernel into flash, and then boot the kernel in-place, so that it is
> not copied to RAM when it runs. Of course the kernel would need RAM for
> its data structures and user programs, but it would seem to me I should be
> able to run the kernel without making a RAM copy.
The uclinux guys have eXecute In Place - google search for uclinux and XIP
will produce a stack of hits - here's one:
http://www.snapgear.com/tb20010618.html

Brad
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