Re: ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

John Griessen <john@ecosensory.com> wrote:
> Riku Voipio wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:04:18AM -0500, John Griessen wrote:
>  and one silicon chip
>>> from luminary has precision time protocol another great reason.
>>
>> You are expecting to fit debian in 256KB of flash?  because that's what
>> the luminary cortex-m3 chips have... also the 64K of ram included is not
>> enough to even start ucLinux.
>
> I was vaguely wondering if some serial memory could be used to get the
> nice OS features of debian packages...  I hadn't realized I'd need so
> much RAM as well as flash..

Any memory other than static RAM would need to be pretty fast for
Cortex-M3 since it doesn't have caches (I tried with the SDRAM on a
RealView/EB board and it was really slow).

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Catalin