On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:55:20PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: | How large is the flash? The smallest flash footprint I got on a 1MB :( | rootfs), but I think I can fit it in 1MB when I make the bootloader | flash partition a bit smaller and use uClibc instead of glibc. I've been using uClibc. How do I make the bootloader flash partition smaller? | What exactly is the target architecture? It's ARM7TDMI with 4MB SDRAM and 1MB flash. | I think you'd better use the bootloader to load the kernel over the | serial port. That's how I would like to do, but there doesn't seem to be any bootloader around for ARM7TDMI. I'd posted it on uclinux-dev not very long time back. | I have written a bootloader for StrongARM systems (blob, see | https://sf.net/projects/blob/ ) which does exactly that. Normal use is | that the bootloader loads the kernel and an optional ramdisk from | flash, but you can download a kernel and a ramdisk over the serial port | in case you'd like to upgrade the kernel or the flash is too small. | This requires exactly 0 modifications to the kernel, and the code is | quite small (the bootloader flash footprint is 16k). How easy is it to add support for new architecture? If it is, then probably I can try and add support for ARM7TDMI. | > I'm able to access the serial port using the serial port functions | > defined in the driver for serial port. | Sure, but it's all a bit of a hack; the bootloader is much better at | loading kernel and ramdisk images. Yeah; it's a dirty thing to do. chyrag. -- Chirag Kantharia, symonds.net/~chyrag/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
