On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, John Cushnie wrote:
> I have tried to download the Linux sources from the Compaq/DWL site for the
> ITSY but for some reason I cannot.
> Anyone have any idea where I can download an upto date version from ?
You can find the latest patch for Brutus (and other SA1100 implementations
except the Itsy) at ftp.netwinder.org/users/n/nico.
> Also the custom system I may have in the future has 1MB of Flash ROM and 1MB
> of Ram resources available.
> Will it be possible to get a minimal usable version of Linux to run on this
> beast ?
With 1 mb of ram, the kernel is likely to run but not much.
> By Minimal there are no displays to drive, no hard disks etc.....
> Any suggestions on what size of Linux kernel I'll be looking at/aiming for ?
It depends of what you want to do. I was able to run a multithreaded
application plus the kernel with the ATAPI cdrom driver in 2 MB of ram.
But you should give more details on your goal for us to tell you if 1 MB
is enough. But at that point, the kernel will eat up mostly the halp of
total memory, so...
Nicolas Pitre, B. ing.
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