[uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings

2013-07-04 Thread Anna Fischer (novero/Bochum)
Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any experiences they can share about using XIP on ucLinux? As far as I can see it is supported for the bootloader, the kernel and also for applications, if the toolchain supports this. My question though is if anyone has done any studies on how much

Re: [uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings

2013-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, it is quite some time ago since I tried XIP on uClinux/Coldfire, but could not get it to run. I do not recall which exact problem I had, because I was fine without it in the end. What is it you want to achieve? Is XIP the only possible option? In my case, I was hoping to reduce startup and

Re: [uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings

2013-07-04 Thread Anna Fischer (novero/Bochum)
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings Hi, it is quite some time ago since I tried XIP on uClinux/Coldfire, but could not get it to run. I do not recall which exact problem I had, because I was fine without it in the end. What is it you want to achieve? Is XIP the

Re: [uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings

2013-07-04 Thread Larry Baker
Anna, It is a national holiday in the US, so I am out of the office until Monday when I will be able to send you more details. I tried to use a Lantronix EDS2100 for an RS-232 data-logging application with remote access. That box has an M68K ColdFire processor, 8MB RAM, 8 MB flash. I used

Re: [uClinux-dev] ucLinux and XIP memory savings

2013-07-04 Thread Gavin Lambert
Quoth Anna Fischer: I was wondering if anyone had any experiences they can share about using XIP on ucLinux? As far as I can see it is supported for the bootloader, the kernel and also for applications, if the toolchain supports this. My question though is if anyone has done any studies on how