Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The end of embedded Linux? | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 13 Oct 2002 10:30:16 -0600 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:37, Alexander Kellett wrote: > > This talk of adeos reminds me of something that i'd > > "dreamed" of a while back. Whats the feasability of > > having a 70kb kernel that barely even provides support > > for user space apps and is basically just an hardware > > abstraction layer for "applications" that can be > > written as kernel modules? > > Its called FreeDOS,
A 70KB kernel without device drivers, or anything much compiled in is a reasonable target. The whole "applications as modules" thing is an entirely different animal.
The initial complaint about the size growth of the Anything is better that 200+KB compressed as a minimal size.
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