Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:44:58 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Alexey Lukin <al@cn.ua>, ada@bsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in embeded systems? Message-ID: <355F3E3A.22B1EDC1@dal.net> References: <199805171039.MAA05410@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: Someone else wrote: > > 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 . This is not universally true. My IDE CD-ROM takes anywhere from 20 to 60 seconds to probe depending on what kind of mood it's in. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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