public inbox for ecos-discuss@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: dorin@gr-303.com
Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot: RAM, ROMRAM, or ROM?
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116532328.22383.117.camel@hermes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050519192641.96949.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com>

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 12:26 -0700, Michael Dorin wrote:
> I have redboot working, more or less, out of RAM
> on my 860T board.   (The RAM build)
> 
> Next step.  ROM.  But what is appropriate.
> Should I do ROMRAM or just ROM?
> 
> I plan on loading Linux through this.

The primary advantage to ROMRAM mode is that RedBoot can update
itself in FLASH without any extra (e.g. RAM) steps.

Other than that, if all you want to do is load & start Linux,
then either will do.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
------------------------------------------------------------


-- 
Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos
and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss

      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-20  7:41 Michael Dorin
2005-05-20  7:57 ` Gary Thomas [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1116532328.22383.117.camel@hermes \
    --to=gary@mlbassoc.com \
    --cc=dorin@gr-303.com \
    --cc=ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).