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 -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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