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Re: ROM File system ?
- To: Sebastien ANDRE <Sebastien dot Andre at sxb dot bsf dot alcatel dot fr>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ROM File system ?
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:05:08 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
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On 02-May-2001 Sebastien ANDRE wrote:
> It's a custom board with an ARM7TDMI
> with a ROM flash (2Mo) and RAM too.
>
ROM based booting is supported in this environment by default.
>
> Gary Thomas a écrit :
>
>> On 02-May-2001 Sebastien ANDRE wrote:
>> > I see in documentation that we can make a simple File System in ROM
>> > ===> (ROM based file system support has been added, contributed by
>> > Richard Panton)
>> >
>> > But i want know if it's possible to boot directly in ROM ?
>>
>> It depends on the platform, but in general the answer is "yes" (although
>> this does not use the ROM file system).
>>
>> Exactly what were you looking for? on what platform?