Re: OT: Different Embedded Linux question
deFreese, Barry said:
> First of all, my apologies for the OT question, we seem to be straying
> quite a bit these days. Now for the WAY OT question:
>
> We are running a lot of Symbol technologies scanners here in the
> warehouse and I noticed that they are using DRDOS for the OS, running
> Novell's free (old) IP stack. My thought was "I wonder if I could get an
> embedded Linux running on this thing"? They have 128K EPROM that holds
> the OS, BIOS, and terminal diagnostics, 640K of RAM and 256K of standard
> non-volatile memory (apperently upgradeable to 1.2M). The one caveat is
> that it would need a 5250 emulator as well and I have yet to find a 5250
> emulator for Linux that works.
I've never heard of any linux kernel that could boot in less then, 2MB
of ram I think(maybe its 4MB).
128k EPROM doesn't sound like enough for even a kernel let alone some
userland stuff.
nate
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