Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:32:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:32:26 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound.cwctv.net ([213.104.18.10]:64819 "EHLO smtp.cwctv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:32:24 -0400 From: To: landley@trommello.org, porter@cox.net, davem@redhat.com, giduru@yahoo.com, andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:36:21 +0100 Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Liberate TVMail 2.6 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1034069781264" Message-ID: <06d8659340908a2DTVMAIL12@smtp.cwctv.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3418 Lines: 79 --1034069781264 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Integral support for TinyX would be nice(www.handhelds.org). Cheers, Dean. On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:50:43 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: --1034069781264 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.116.70.75]) by smtp.cwctv.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.447.44); Tue, 8 Oct 2002 03:36:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:29:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:29:50 -0400 Received: from pc132.utati.net ([216.143.22.132]:53921 "HELO merlin.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:29:49 -0400 Received: from there (pc141.utati.net [216.143.22.141]) by merlin.webofficenow.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with SMTP id C0DDF630; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:50:30 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley To: Matt Porter Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:50:43 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: "David S. Miller" , giduru@yahoo.com, andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021007214053.36F16622@merlin.webofficenow.com> <20021007162048.A19216@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20021007162048.A19216@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20021008005030.C0DDF630@merlin.webofficenow.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: linux-kernel-owner+Hell.Surfers=40cwctv.net@vger.kernel.org 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. - 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/ --1034069781264-- - 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/