From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4073 invoked by alias); 19 May 2005 20:01:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29304 invoked from network); 19 May 2005 19:52:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.chez-thomas.org) (206.168.96.204) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 19 May 2005 19:52:10 -0000 Received: by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 06EE66FC0D0; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:52:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9126FC0CF; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:52:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Gary Thomas To: dorin@gr-303.com Cc: eCos Discussion In-Reply-To: <20050519192641.96949.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050519192641.96949.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:57:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1116532328.22383.117.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot: RAM, ROMRAM, or ROM? X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00270.txt.bz2 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