Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"

["Petr Stehlik" <pstehlik@zln.cz>]

>> what's /ram? and what is the -pipe option? I need to speed up my
compilation
>
>/ram (or actually 'u:\ram') is the ramdisk. '-pipe' makes gcc pipe data
>between the preprocessor/compiler/assembler instead of using /tmp. This
>reduces disk-access to a minimum (it's pretty stupid to load the 1Mb
>executable of cpp for each file you compile...), and use the CPU more
>efficiently.

Hmm, when I compile, the machine thinks for about a minute (compiling a
module) and then it quickly saves .o, loads another .c and again thinks a
long time. Sometimes it looks like a 060 wouldn't hurt :-)

Petr