Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:57:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: The end of embedded Linux? |
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Gigi Duru,
You just found your consultant, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo! Now issue a contract for deliverables on an opensource solution and become a hero for embedded.
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:23:06PM -0500, Oliver Xymoron escreveu: > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:36:50PM -0700, Gigi Duru wrote: > > > > I know you guys are struggling to bring "world class VM & IO" to Linux, > > > going for SMPs and other big toys, but you are about to lose what you > > > already have: the embedded market. > > > It's still plenty small enough for many many embedded uses and most people > > are more than happy with it. The reason that it's not even smaller is no one > > has stepped forward to do the trimming. It's easy enough to do, but we can > > only assume from the fact that no one's done so is that it's really not that > > important. > > > If you think it's important, either make it happen or pay someone else to > > make it happen. > > I've been thinking about working on a CONFIG_TINY for ages and would love to > have somebody else beat me to do this, as currently I'm too busy saving old > network protocols and with a backlog of patches for general network > infrastructure (clean up include/linux/skbuff.h so that it doesn't have any > reference to specific protocols, in the same way that I did for > include/net/sock.h) and macroising access to stats in tcp/ip so that we can > be preempt friendly. > > I have also __initstr patches to free more memory after boot by moving the > strings in __init functions to .data.init section that will help with > embedded stuff as well. Some of the strings are passed to things like > register_chrdev and would require changes in those register functions to > copy the string passed as it will be freed after boot, etc. > > - Arnaldo > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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