[Idea] Windows Mobile partitially loaded from Storage

[alphazero]

Hello all,

i have a idea about doing something that would give a huge amount extra space for our phone and possibly could speed the device up.

THe idea is loading parts or the whole windows system from the internal storage.
has anyone ever tried doing something that goes to this direction ?

Please share your opinion.

greetings alphazero

[psc001]

You mean executing from storage (so it does not have to be run from RAM/Pagepool) ? WM 5/6 can do execute in place (XIP) from NOR based ROM/Flash. I am not sure what the Diamond has for it's base 256MB "ROM", probably NAND as its cheaper and writes a lot faster.

[alphazero]

You mean executing from storage (so it does not have to be run from RAM/Pagepool) ? WM 5/6 can do execute in place (XIP) from NOR based ROM/Flash. I am not sure what the Diamond has for it's base 256MB "ROM", probably NAND as its cheaper and writes a lot faster.

so you think its possible ?

[psc001]

Depends on the base flash type of the Diamon 256MB ROM. Also remember that the read speed (even with NOR flash) is a lot slower than RAM

[iXiR]

It's a nice thought, but I think that the performance boost will not be what you expect. A few extra MB's of RAM will not make the device more usable. So to be short: don't spend time on this. Make fast ROM's instead ;)