From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Rolf Liu" <rolfl@sc.mcel.mot.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux ppc ?
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:50:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101040850.f048oN918835@denx.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:45:55 +0800." <017b01c075f0$15265b50$bf0102c8@sc.mcel.mot.com>
In message <017b01c075f0$15265b50$bf0102c8@sc.mcel.mot.com> you wrote:
>
> As all know, the kernel is resided in flash rom, then upon power-on, kernel
> is copied to RAM.
> I wonder if I can just put data segment to ram and leave code segment to
> FLASH, just as uClinux
> has done. such method will save some ram space, which makes sense on
> embedded solutions.
Does it really make sense? Flash is more expensive than RAM, and
sometimes slower (especially if you have just a 8 or 16 bit wide boot
device). For all systems I've seen so far it was more efficient to be
able to store a compressed image in flash, to reduce the flash
footprint on the expense of some RAM.
This has been discussed several times before on this mailing list;
you might want to search the archives for all the other arguments pro
and contra.
Wolfgang Denk
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-04 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-04 1:45 separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux ppc ? Rolf Liu
2001-01-04 3:14 ` separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux p Gary Thomas
2001-01-04 3:49 ` Rolf Liu
2001-01-04 4:07 ` Critical section - pSOS+ Srinivas Rao.M
2001-01-04 21:03 ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-01-05 5:19 ` Srinivas Rao.M
2001-01-04 18:07 ` separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux p Dan Malek
2001-01-04 8:50 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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