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From: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Introducing barebOS
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:33:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533A87F5.9080400@erwinrol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140401090229.GT17250@pengutronix.de>

You could use a small Linux system with an adapted kexec to boot
barebOS.  That way barebOS doesn't have to bother with the boot processes.

- Erwin


On 1-4-2014 11:02, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> barebox more and more comes in the area that is has everything an
> operating system needs:
> 
> - support for all kinds of storage devices
> - support for various different fileystems
> - Cooperative multitasking with the poller mechanism
> - memory management in form of malloc/free and iospace resources
> - drivers for Networking, MMC, USB, UARTs, Framebuffer devices, (S)ATA,
>   SPI, I2C, W1, Keyboard, EEPROMs, LEDs
> 
> I therefore decided that it's no longer necessary to have the overhead
> of Linux at all. The project will be renamed to barebOS in the next few
> days. Support for booting Linux will be dropped as soon as some the
> remaining missing features are added, like for example a working vi
> applet and nodejs integration. I'm looking forward to your feedback!
> 
> Sascha
> 


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01  9:02 Introducing barebOS Sascha Hauer
2014-04-01  9:20 ` Alexander Shiyan
2014-04-01  9:23   ` Franck Jullien
2014-04-01  9:35     ` Alessandro Rubini
2014-04-01  9:45       ` Alexander Aring
2014-04-01 15:22       ` Nur Hussein
2014-04-01 16:16         ` Alessandro Rubini
2014-04-01  9:32 ` Alexander Aring
2014-04-01  9:33 ` Erwin Rol [this message]
2014-04-05  2:53 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2014-04-05  5:49   ` Antony Pavlov
2014-04-05  5:52     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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