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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>
Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux?
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:50:43 -0400
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On Monday 07 October 2002 07:20 pm, Matt Porter wrote:
>
> > Or they could play in the source code if their needs are sufficiently
> > unusual, which more or less by definition they will be in this case.  No
> > matter how thorough you are here, there will be things they want to tweak
> > (or would if they knew about them) that there is no config option for. 
> > "make menuconfig" is not a complete replacement for knowing C in all
> > cases.
>
> True, but there are a number of people out there who want to do say
> a kernel port to XYZ custom board.  They learn some basic kernel
> knowledge, but we can't expect them to be a guru of everything to
> get some work done.

Another very real option here is Documentation/tinykernel.txt.  (Possibly 
even going so far as a brief mention of uclibc and busybox/tinylogin, but 
mostly just about choping down the kernel for embedding in nosehair trimmers 
and electric toothbrushes and such.)

Rob "waiting for the linux i-button" Landley.
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