From: Ameet Patil <ammubhai@gmail•com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:05:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A8DDDA.6090604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528646bc0606301302u5922945dycda569e6954fa353@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Grant,
I totally agree with you. What you say is correct. It will
definitely kill the CF card. I use a XUPV2PRO board which doesn't come
with a microdrive and for my research SWAP is a must. :-)
However, I shall add a NOTE in the article mentioning the same.
Thanks a lot,
-Ameet
Grant Likely wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Ameet Patil <ammubhai@gmail•com> wrote:
>> Here is PART I of the article:
>> http://www.linux.get2knowmore.com/2006/06/30/quick-guide-linux-26-on-xilinx-virtex-ii-pro-boards-part-i/
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you get messages at boot time after following the above...
>
> Quick comment on your article; unless you're using a microdrive;
> *PLEASE* don't recommend using compact flash as swap space. Flash
> technology has limited write cycles (on the order of 100k to 1M cycles
> per block). Using it as swap is a great way to kill the lifecycle of
> your device.
>
> (the ML300 ships with a microdrive; the ML40x ships with a regular CF card)
>
> I know the previous article also recommends a swap partition, but
> Linux will happily run without swap.
>
> Cheers,
> g.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-03 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-28 18:17 Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6 Ameet Patil
2006-06-29 2:45 ` sudheer
[not found] ` <44A3A77D.6000804@gmail.com>
2006-06-29 10:58 ` Ameet Patil
2006-06-30 16:12 ` Ming Liu
2006-06-30 16:55 ` Ameet Patil
2006-06-30 17:24 ` Ming Liu
2006-06-30 17:35 ` Andrei Konovalov
2006-07-01 6:21 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-06-30 19:52 ` Ameet Patil
2006-06-30 20:02 ` Grant Likely
2006-06-30 20:07 ` Ming Liu
2006-07-03 9:05 ` Ameet Patil [this message]
2006-07-06 12:49 ` Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6 Ming Liu
2006-07-06 13:31 ` Ameet Patil
2006-06-29 10:56 ` Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6 Ameet Patil
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2006-06-14 18:35 G.Muruganandam
2005-09-06 18:26 Grant Likely
2005-09-07 13:56 ` Jeff Angielski
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