From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965207AbVHTASu (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965206AbVHTASu (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:18:50 -0400 Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr ([213.228.0.169]:34699 "EHLO postfix3-2.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965207AbVHTASu (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:18:50 -0400 Message-ID: <430676E8.3070103@lifl.fr> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:18:48 +0200 From: Eric Piel Organization: LIFL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-3mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, ja, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Imanpreet Arora CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux under 8MB References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 19.08.2005 00:11, Imanpreet Arora wrote/a écrit: > Hi all, > > For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set > up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which > just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could > help with the following queries > > a) Is linux2.4 just the right option? What about linux 2.0.x? > Or for that matter even <2.0 > b) What are the specific issues that are to be considered > while compiling an old kernel on a newer setup? I ask this because I > compiled my current setup on a 2.6.11 machine and while doing "make > modules_install", I got errors from depmod[%], complaining about > depmod.old. I had to kludge my way through by setting up a link from > depmod.old to depmod. > Last year, at the Realtime linux workshop, there was a paper about running Linux on a machine with 2Mb of RAM + 2Mb of Flash. They even manage to boot in 1 second! Nevertheless, they had to do several modifications to achieve this. Maybe with the new options in the 2.6 kernel, it would be easier... Check it here: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2004/papers.html#PAPER_5795 Regards, Eric