> >> One question I have is whether it is possible to burn an uncompressed image
> >> of the kernel into flash, and then boot the kernel in-place, so that it is
> >> not copied to RAM when it runs. Of course the kernel would need RAM for
> >> its data structures and user programs, but it would seem to me I should be
> >> able to run the kernel without making a RAM copy.
> > The uclinux guys have eXecute In Place - google search for uclinux and XIP
> > will produce a stack of hits - here's one:
> > http://www.snapgear.com/tb20010618.html
>
> Yep, we have this for uClinux. Currently we are only doing
> this on MMU-less processors though, I haven't heard of anyone
> doing kernel (or apps) XIP from flash on VM processors.
I thought they were doing XIP on VTechHelio? That's MIPS39xx and has MMU.
See linux-vr project.
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