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Re: ethernet download
- To: gthomas at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ethernet download
- From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:22:13 -0400
- CC: tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <XFMail.20010824091411.gthomas@redhat.com>
>>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> On 24-Aug-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote:
>> That sounds cool. I never thought of that. I'll try it. How much RAM
>> does Redboot take up? Can you have it take up a smaller amount of RAM
>> after it's started the other system? We are only putting 1M RAM on our
>> target board so I can't have it taking up much.
>>
> The normal case is for RedBoot to use 128K. However, if you're willing
> to give up RedBoot's services (e.g. network console & debugging, etc)
> after starting your code, that can be reduced to 0 (it's a non-factor
> becaose your code will use everything available).
Also, in the case of systems like linux, RedBoot is out of the picture
completely once the app is started. The app is then free to reuse any
RAM that was previously used by RedBoot.
--Mark