Re: Running Linux with 2Mo of Ram.

Christophe.LINDHEIMER@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:

Hi.

I am trying to run linux on a custom board ( Mpc8xx )
There is only 2Mo of RAM.
I use romfs to save RAM.

I use U-boot to start the kernel.

The kernel starts correctly.
the kernel is launched with init=/bin/sh

The kernel stops to tell me to press enter to activate the console ( to
launch the sh ) and then crash because it is running out of memory.

The question is to know if it is really impossible to make Linux work on
this target or is I have missed something that could explain that there is
no more memory available.

You will need some type of "execute in place", i.e. run the kernel and/or
userspace applications out of ROM in order to work with 2MB of RAM.

This type of thing is generally very board, processor and application specific.
  So I don't believe there is existing (open source) code to do it.

--Mark


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