From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 17 05:24:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15300 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 05:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA15285 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 05:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id MAA05410; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:39:21 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805171039.MAA05410@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in embeded systems? To: al@cn.ua (Alexey Lukin) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:39:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ada@bsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <355ECDE9.FBD954C6@cn.ua> from "Alexey Lukin" at May 17, 98 02:45:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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