> In message > <1314024740.953824470340.JavaMail.wwwrun at moe.freenet.de> you wrote: > > > > all Linux I know will be copied during startup from Harddisk, > NFS or Flash to RAM and will be executed there. > > Is there a possibility for smaller systems to run the > > kernel directly from flash memory as other embedded os's do? > Did somebody try this or is it totaly impossible? > > It may be possible, but usually it does not make much sense - to run > the kernel directly from FLASH you must store an uncompressed kernel > image there, so you need more FLASH. Given the price difference > between FLASH and DRAM memory is often cheaper to uncompress into > RAM, and run from RAM. > not to mention that DRAM is usually faster than FLASH...
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