Yes. I noticed that in the original demo Linux of MontaVista shipped by Xilinx for ML403, there is no swap partition.
Regards Ming >From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> >To: "Ameet Patil" <ammubhai at gmail.com> >CC: "Ming Liu" <eemingliu at hotmail.com>, linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org >Subject: Re: Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6 >Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:02:28 -0600 > >On 6/30/06, Ameet Patil <ammubhai at gmail.com> wrote: >>Here is PART I of the article: >>http://www.linux.get2knowmore.com/2006/06/30/quick-guide-linux-26-on-xilinx-virtex-ii-pro-boards-part-i/ >> >>Let me know if you get messages at boot time after following the >>above... > >Quick comment on your article; unless you're using a microdrive; >*PLEASE* don't recommend using compact flash as swap space. Flash >technology has limited write cycles (on the order of 100k to 1M >cycles >per block). Using it as swap is a great way to kill the lifecycle >of >your device. > >(the ML300 ships with a microdrive; the ML40x ships with a regular >CF card) > >I know the previous article also recommends a swap partition, but >Linux will happily run without swap. > >Cheers, >g. > >-- >Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. >Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. >grant.likely at secretlab.ca >(403) 399-0195 _________________________________________________________________ ?????????????? MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn
