Linux CAN be made to run small
Linux CAN be made to run small
Posted May 7, 2014 21:42 UTC (Wed) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901)Parent article: Networking on tiny machines
It's a shame to see these patches rejected for such specious reasons. Reports from ELC indicate that the kernel can be made to run in small-footprint devices with useful functionality.
The micro-Yocto project has shown a recent kernel running in under 2M RAM, with networking (and presumably with these patches). Vitaly Wool presented some information about running Linux on a system with 2M flash and 256K ram (but the kernel was a bit old - 2.6.33).
Here are links to their presentations:
It would be nice to be able to share this work widely, by getting it upstream.