From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 13:23:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580101065673 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:23:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from feld.me (unknown [IPv6:2607:f4e0:100:300::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171F78FC1F for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:23:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; s=blargle; h=In-Reply-To:Message-Id:From:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Date:References:Subject:To:Content-Type; bh=WKpEB12kIpDOyAnA+SbCyseCDwWRevsIg9u3Ajh3uhI=; b=aJ3o9IbUoRQKwqDbTHx3mLMG8QUcfmdULbKEPS0sMNFd6Gm+7YM8SCgEGXW8jhFm5L8wQIdGFoQB3D6ioyTTKKTXzB4dT6teGNPJhvZ/v29emlNl/WXn5mX0OANqLJFx; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mwi1.coffeenet.org) by feld.me with esmtp (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKss-00002Q-AC for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:23:49 -0500 Received: from feld@feld.me by mwi1.coffeenet.org (Archiveopteryx 3.1.4) with esmtpa id 1340198620-94480-94479/5/14; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:23:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20120615124849.GI96212@ass.kameli.org> <20120618081140.GK96212@ass.kameli.org> <4FDF6177.5050608@unsane.co.uk> <4FDF6586.9060501@gentoo.org> <4FDFB166.2040709@FreeBSD.org> <20120620085938.GL96212@ass.kameli.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:23:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Mark Felder Message-Id: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (FreeBSD) X-SA-Score: -1.5 Subject: Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:23:50 -0000 On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:27:09 -0500, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa =20 wrote: > Also, in embedded systems, boot time is an important factor. If you're designing a very specific embedded product based on FreeBSD = why =20 aren't you writing your own startup system? Why would anyone expect a =20 general purpose "out of the box" OS to excel in a highly optimized =20 embedded environment?