[plug] Linux on a chip

[McMeikan, Andrew]

Unless you have lots of money for a solid state drive, just mound a normal
drive in some foam, they are remarkably tolerant and the G's when foam
mounted are not that bad.

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Breen [SMTP:jbreen at wn.com.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:02 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	RE: [plug] Linux on a chip
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: andrew.mcmeikan at mitswa.com.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au, 
> Subject: RE: [plug] Linux on a chip
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:32:12 +0800
> 
> >Well boot time can be down to 7 seconds off of a HDD and you really
> need to
> >store the MP3's somewhere anyway.
> I know - I was looking at a memory card or a ATA card (solid state
> hard drive).  Cuts down on access...
> 
> >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.
> I know that one too.  So if a linux kernel were written to a chip and
> compiled ex-modules and with only essential daemons running....
> 
> >
> >	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
> >> 
> >
> >
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