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Re: Booting oskit from linear flash
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> >If you don't have a bios to help, then you can use linear flash memory and
> >send the initial chip select to the flash device. However, one would have
> >to write some custom software to configure the system before loading a
> >boot sector loader like lilo.
>
> Hey... the things is diskless... why would he want to load a bootsector ?
>
Since there are existing Linux drivers that make flash look like a device
you can treat it like a file system. Also, flash is slow and it's
preferable to execute code from DRAM which is much faster. Also, you may
want your kernal image and application code to be compressed on flash.
Regards,
Chuck Carlson
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