Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:52:39 +0100
From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
To: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
       Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:27:55PM +0200, Rogan Dawes wrote:
> Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> 
> > Keeping thinking about it, I now think that my 'application program'
> > (basically a serial-to-ethernet converter) should be a kernel thread,
> > because of the small memory constraints.
> > 
> > The question is thus how to access the serial lines from a kernel thread.
> > 
> > Philippe
> 
> If your constraints are that severe, perhaps you should be investigating
> other solutions. e.g. eCos?

I like to reuse (and contribute to) the linux drivers and kernel.

> Linux doesn't ALWAYS have to be the answer :-)

No ? :)

Philippe
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