GrimyHR | # 1 | 2012-04-07, 17:52 | Report

so, ive been thinking about this for a while now but i dont know if it could be done:
could that 256mb of fast memory be freed up by moving the whole system somehow to emmc and than used as a swap faster than any sd card?

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NIN101 | # 2 | 2012-04-07, 18:16 | Report

Moving maemo to EMMC? Should be possible. But if you have to ask, not too easy...

If I remember correctly, the N950 somehow does that. But the NAND does not employ wear leveling, so by common sense this would lead to some shorter lifetime at least.

qwazix | # 3 | 2012-04-07, 19:25 | Report

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59374

bandora | # 4 | 2012-04-07, 20:00 | Report

And to add to qwazix's useful post, you would want to have a class 10 SD card so you can have it run fast!

GrimyHR | # 5 | 2012-04-07, 21:57 | Report

will look at this tomorow when i sober up to see if i can actually format the original rootfs on nand when i do this or i must keep it

Hurrian | # 6 | 2012-04-08, 04:21 | Report

The root fs scripts suck - they still depend on the nand to boot!

The ideal solution is to include the omap-hsmmc and ext4 modules in kernel (and change cmdline) then load it using flasher or u-boot.