Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_TINY | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:16:48 +0000 |
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On Monday 04 November 2002 20:34, Cort Dougan wrote: > I'm with you on that. People who clammer ignorantly about image size > without looking at what they actually need should have opened their eyes in > the last few years. Flash and RAM sizes under 32M are nearly unheard of > now-a-days.
How much power does flash eat? I was under the impression half the reason for tiny amounts of memory was to increase battery life in things that really should last weeks or months instead of hours (wristwatches, cell phones on standby, etc), but I guess that's mostly a question of dram and sram, not flash. (I take it you can read the heck out of it without wearing it out, it's just writes that are a problem... Then again you don't want rapidly rewritten bookkeeping stuff in flash, do you? (Jiffies, scheduler stuff, etc, should not be in flash...))
Not my area, I'm afraid...
Rob
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