From: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: I hate busybox!
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:01:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F913D0.2000109@topic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7097EDE-4D17-48E1-9D35-E4A59F64BFD6@gmail.com>
On 16-09-15 03:13, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/15/15 04:26, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>>> My embedded system has enough room in it for full-featured command line
>>> tools,...
"Embedded" in my world is not about RAM or disk size. It's about
building a device that has a set task in life, and nothing is as
important as that one task. Whether that's running on an i7 or an M3 is
irrelevant.
For a system to acquire and process sensor data, record your favorite TV
shows, or guide a missile, there's no need for a full fledged bash shell
interpreter. It just needs a bit of plumbing to get the application up
and running, and that's about it.
Busybox is for systems like that. For these systems, anything more is
overkill, and will waste resources and increase the boot time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-16 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-15 8:26 I hate busybox! Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-15 8:45 ` Paul Eggleton
2015-09-15 10:44 ` Burton, Ross
2015-09-16 0:31 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-15 14:47 ` Trevor Woerner
2015-09-15 14:53 ` Trevor Woerner
2015-09-15 15:39 ` William Mills
2015-09-15 16:38 ` Romain Perier
2015-09-15 17:01 ` Bob Cochran
2015-09-15 18:22 ` Trevor Woerner
2015-09-15 19:30 ` Bob Cochran
2015-09-16 0:35 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-16 1:13 ` Khem Raj
2015-09-16 1:21 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-16 7:01 ` Mike Looijmans [this message]
2015-09-16 16:43 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-16 20:23 ` Khem Raj
2015-09-16 21:07 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2015-09-16 21:17 ` Khem Raj
2015-09-17 7:12 ` Mike Looijmans
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