Also i have difficult to understand your request. Would you enable some XIP feature? If so, i know a patch for ext2 "http://lwn.net/Articles/135442/";, so you can run program without require .text area in real RAM; simply mounting: "mount -o xip ... " Good work ---------- Initial Header ----------- >From : owner-dev-etrax@xxxxxxxx To : "Jiri Pittner" jiri.pittner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc : "dev-etrax" dev-etrax@xxxxxxxx, kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date : Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:26:17 +0100 Subject : Re: Increasing RAM on my FOX board by using a USB pen drive > As I said already, I'm sorry if I was missunderstood, but I meant to make > my system see more RAM. > > Is that possible? > > On 1/30/07, Jiri Pittner <jiri.pittner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Use swap space. I did it, it works with 2.4.31 but it has frozen the > > system with 2.6 kernel due to some kernel bug. > > [root@axis /root]14430# cat /proc/swaps > > Filename Type Size Used Priority > > /dev/sda6 partition 56176 2768 -1 > > You have to: partition the flash, use mkswap (this can be done on a PC). > > In the kernel for axis allow swapspace and in busybox configuration > > switch on implementation of swapon. In boot scripts run the swapon > > command. Only up to sda4 is created in /dev, edit the proper Makefile > > if you need more partitions. > > Jiri > > > > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Salvatore Benedetto wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to increase the amount of system > > memory > > > seen by my FOX board by using a USB pen drive. Of course I know the > > memory > > > time > > > access would be slower, but my only concern is to increase the RAM size > > > seen by my embedded system. > > > > > > Does linux provide some mechanism to achieve this kind of configuration? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > Salvo. > > > > > > -- > > > Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax) > > > Student of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications > > > University of Messina (Italy) > > > www.messinalug.org > > > > > > No to global warming! > > > http: //www.climatecrisis.net/ > > > http: //www.stopglobalwarming.org/ > > > > > > Siti di vera informazione Italiana > > > www.beppegrillo.it > > > www.marcotravaglio.it > > > www.danieleluttazzi.it > > > www.antoniodipietro.it > > > > > > Please do not send me any word, excel or power point file > > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > > > > -- > Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax) > Student of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications > University of Messina (Italy) > www.messinalug.org > > No to global warming! > http://www.climatecrisis.net/ > http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/ > > Siti di vera informazione Italiana > www.beppegrillo.it > www.marcotravaglio.it > www.danieleluttazzi.it > www.antoniodipietro.it > > Please do not send me any word, excel or power point file > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > ------------------------------------------------------ Mutuo da 200.000 ?? Tassi ridotti da 4.25%. Solo per richieste online. Mutuionline.it http://click.libero.it/mutuionline31ge07 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
