From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 17 12:46:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06067 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05974 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03657; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <355F3E3A.22B1EDC1@dal.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:44:58 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo CC: Alexey Lukin , ada@bsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in embeded systems? References: <199805171039.MAA05410@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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