On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:59:41AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
Making 2MB RAM machines today makes no sense at all.
The lowest end dirt cheap smartphone, something which fits on
someone's pocket, has gigabytes of ram.
The lowest-end smartphone isn't anywhere close to "dirt cheap", and
hardly counts as "embedded" at all anymore. Smartphones cost $100+;
we're talking about systems in the low tens of dollars or less. These
systems will have no graphics, no peripherals, and only one or two
specific functions. The entirety of their functionality will likely
consist of a single userspace program; they might not even have a PID 2.
*That's* the kind of "embedded" we're talking about, not the
supercomputers we carry around in our pockets.