Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:50:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:50:31 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:37393 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:50:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Gigi Duru cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? In-Reply-To: <20021005193650.17795.qmail@web13202.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1724 Lines: 51 Well have a nice day and go pay for windriver licenses, or use the source to adopt to your needs, or hire somebody who can do it for you. Whinning will not help, doing will. Regards, On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Gigi Duru wrote: > Trivial experiment: configure out _ALL_ the options on > 2.5.38 and build bzImage. My result? A totally useless > 270KB kernel (compressed). > > Now try to put in some useful stuff and the > _compressed_ image will cheerfully approach 1MB. Where > are the days when a 200KB kernel would be fully > equipped? > > I know you guys are struggling to bring "world class > VM & IO" to Linux, going for SMPs and other big toys, > but you are about to lose what you already have: the > embedded market. > > As an embedded developer, I can't stand bloat. I think > an OS designer should feel the same, and develop in a > fully modular and configurable manner, going for both > speed and size. For a long time I've felt that Linux > has got it right, but lately I'm not that sure > anymore. > > Gigi Duru > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/