Tom M wrote:
The trick is to get at least restore from USB storage able to be in the
boot flash; I don't mind so much if we have to put TCP/IP and wireless
modules into a partition on the regular flash. And if we can get it
all to fit into less than 512K bytes (BIOS + Linux as bootloader), then
we get to save $.3 to $.5, which over the number of units we're
building, is more than small change.
Is there some way to get that point to the general kernel hackers
community? Would the kernel mailing list be appropriate to
communicate such information to the larger community? While we have
many extraordinarily knowledgable individuals on this list, there is
always a chance of finding someone who has either done this or similar
work before, or who has the skills necessary to help.
there's a lot of work ongoing on tiny kernels. YH Lu at AMD has done
some testing and it seems we can jam a kernel into < 400k. This is of
great interest in the linuxbios community, and will probably help olpc.
ron
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