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16 years ago

about the size of different OS

Hi, Now I have several NEEK boards.I want to use them to create a distributed environment.So the size of OS will determine how many processors I can put into one single board. Does anyon...
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16 years ago

At best you would use SMP-Linux, but AFAIK, same is not yet available for NIOS.

As 16 MB should be by far enough for Linux, running Linux twice should be possible.

But I suppose a single DRAM would be a nasty bottleneck with such a configuration.

IMHO a second processor makes mist sense if very fast reaction is required and here, it should run without a formal OS.

-Michael