From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90348E00303 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2011 17:04:50 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="85617108" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.12.30]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2011 17:04:49 -0800 Message-ID: <4EE2B041.6080305@intel.com> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:05:05 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ashfield, Bruce" , Yocto Project References: <4EE2911E.3090708@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE2911E.3090708@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: linux-yocto: ktypes/tiny and some questions along the way X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:04:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/09/2011 02:52 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > Bruce, > > I'm looking at introducing a new kernel type, ktypes/tiny. > > Tiny will define a core set of kernel policy options, such as proc, sys, > devtmpfs, futex, epoll, elf bin format, etc. It will not enable any > drivers, filesystems, debug options, or networking options by default. > This would be the responsibility of the BSP to add a named feature > implementing this. I've created a meta/tiny branch (untested) demonstrating how I'm going about this. Early critique is welcome: http://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-yocto-3.0.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dvhart/meta/tiny -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel