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Re: Redboot: RAM, ROMRAM, or ROM?
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: dorin at gr-303 dot com
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:52:07 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot: RAM, ROMRAM, or ROM?
- References: <20050519192641.96949.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 12:26 -0700, Michael Dorin wrote:
> I have redboot working, more or less, out of RAM
> on my 860T board. (The RAM build)
>
> Next step. ROM. But what is appropriate.
> Should I do ROMRAM or just ROM?
>
> I plan on loading Linux through this.
The primary advantage to ROMRAM mode is that RedBoot can update
itself in FLASH without any extra (e.g. RAM) steps.
Other than that, if all you want to do is load & start Linux,
then either will do.
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