On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:16 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote: [...] > Well, sure - but the industry as a whole seems to have gone the other "The industry as a whole" doesn't exist on that low level. You can't compare the laptop and/or desktop computer market (where one may buy today hardware that runs in 3 years with the next generation/release of the OS and applications) with the e.g. "WLAN router" market where - from the commercial point of view - every Euro counts (and where the requirements for the lifetime of the device are long frozen before the thing gets in a shop). > way - do more with more at the similar or lower price points! > By that definition of less is better we should try and make the kernel > memory pageable (or has someone already done that?) - Windows does it, That doesn't help as in really small devices (like WLAN routers, cable modems, etc.) you run without any means of paging/swapping. And even binaries/read-only files are not necessarily executable in place (but must be loaded into RAM). So you can't flush these pages. And pageable kernel memory doesn't come for free - even if one only counts the increased code and it's complexity. > by default ;) Which is more a sign that it is probably a very bad idea. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
