Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 May 2014 10:12:11 -0700 | From | Rick Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional |
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On 05/06/2014 09:41 AM, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:59:41AM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> Making 2MB RAM machines today makes no sense at all. >> >> The lowest end dirt cheap smartphone, something which fits on >> someone's pocket, has gigabytes of ram. > > The lowest-end smartphone isn't anywhere close to "dirt cheap", and > hardly counts as "embedded" at all anymore. Smartphones cost $100+; > we're talking about systems in the low tens of dollars or less. These > systems will have no graphics, no peripherals, and only one or two > specific functions. The entirety of their functionality will likely > consist of a single userspace program; they might not even have a PID 2. > *That's* the kind of "embedded" we're talking about, not the > supercomputers we carry around in our pockets.
Would this be some sort of "Internet of Things" system?
rick jones
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