From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 05:20:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747FB16A47B for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com [216.109.112.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A85643D46 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:20:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout1-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (8.13.6/8.13.4/y.out) with ESMTP id k5K5KfWZ045749; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:13:21 +0900 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: <20060619115827.A25435@wonkity.com> References: <20060619115827.A25435@wonkity.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-apple-darwin8.5.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creation of a new list for Embedded.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:20:59 -0000 At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:10:44 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > So will freebsd-small go away? Both lists share the description of > "Dedicated and embedded systems based on FreeBSD". > When I initially talked to people about this the thought was that the list would be moved, but that was considered too intrusive, and the idea was dropped. For my own part I am now using exclusively embedded, and will drop my small membership in a week or so. If people "vote with their feet" and the traffic on small drops to 0 then we can make some choices about it, but that is not important right now. > What list would be appropriate for discussion about using FreeBSD > not as an embedded system, but as a host environment for embedded > microcontrollers like PIC/AVR/ARM? Is there crossover between the > two groups? I would say that those subjects are fit for this list. The idea is a name change, and not a subject change. This was the least intrusive way to make a name change. Best, George