Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:49:21 -0700 | From | jw schultz <> | Subject | Re: The end of embedded Linux? |
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:17:45PM +0100, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > > > On 9 Oct 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > 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, > > > > > > > -emm. Maybe he needs just a bit more. > > Minix, maybe?
Now, be realistic. What he asks here isn't that farfeteched. Tell me one other OS that has drivers of the same quality. I'll be the first to say (oops, Alan beat me to it) that a Linux stripped down that much wouldn't be Linux.
However, it wouldn't be an unreasonable project to create sort of fork that strips Linux down to the bare minimum while still keeping the driver API. I don't say that it can be done just that it might make a reasonable public project if enough embedded people wanted such a beast^Winsect. The dificulty would be excising/replacing core code without breaking it, side-porting driver patches, and the periodic resyncing with Linux so new drivers and driver patches would still apply. Painful indeed.
Of course it wouldn't be Linux. Maybe call it Minux or Minlin. And give it its own mailing list instead of linux-kernel.
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