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Date:      Sun, 17 May 1998 12:39:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        al@cn.ua (Alexey Lukin)
Cc:        ada@bsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD in embeded systems?
Message-ID:  <199805171039.MAA05410@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <355ECDE9.FBD954C6@cn.ua> from "Alexey Lukin" at May 17, 98 02:45:26 pm

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> 1) kernel gets biger with IDE drivers, and 2) booting time gets
> unacceptable for embeded systems.
> Imagine systen with watchdog timer: it should be ready after hardware
> reset in a very short time, but
> BIOS and kernel "thinks" appr 60-80 sec on IDE devices. Too long for my
> applications. 

if you configure your kernel properly there are no such pauses. you
only have them when the kernel has to wait for non-existing devices to
come up .

> Well, yet another little silly thing - fsck on real filesystem. It may
> wait for maintainer forever :-)

make the critical filesystems  readonly and you don't have this problem.

	luigi
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