[plug] Linux on a chip

[McMeikan, Andrew]

Well boot time can be down to 7 seconds off of a HDD and you really need to
store the MP3's somewhere anyway.
On a 486 most of the boot time is going to be the kernel starting up which
is going to be there regardless of source media.

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Breen [SMTP:jbreen at wn.com.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:08 PM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Linux on a chip
> 
> I'm sure it's been asked before, but I have a little project I'm
> looking at - I want to run a 486 board with Linux on it off a car
> battery (with a view to car mounting it...)
> 
> Don't REALLY want to take the time to boot of HDD every time the
> car's started, so I thought perhaps an EPROM carrying a Linux kernel
> could be used, and perhaps (if I can find one) an ATA card for
> storage.
> 
> The idea is to put together an MP3 player.  Like I said, it's been
> discussed before...
> 
> Any ideas, info, pointers, etc...?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> john Breen
>