Hi Eric,
The easiest way to go about that would be to write a kernel
"driver" that contains your application. A good book on the
subject is "Linux Device Drivers" ISBN 1-56592-292-1.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565922921
Good luck,
John Lombardo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I was wondering if anybody had ever tried to link
> an embedded application
> directly to the kernel. Before anybody thinks
> I've gone off my rocker, I
> was thinking that for an embedded system this
> could be nice because there
> would be no need for storage (disk, flash, etc)
> drivers or filesystems for
> embedded systems that don't need storage. So
> you'd end up with:
> bootloader--->kernel+userprocess
>
> where a normal system goes
> bootloader--->kernel--->rootfs--->userprocess(init)...
>
> Any reasons why this couldn't be done? Assume
> this would be for a really
> simple embedded app where everything is running as root.
>
> Eric Seppanen / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
