From: Armin Steinhoff <armin@steinhoff.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TinxCore and PREEMPT_RT
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:51:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9204C8.4080001@steinhoff.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762y6dmat.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> Armin Steinhoff<armin@steinhoff.de> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> yes, it's running !
>>
>> TinyCore is very small (10MB) , works with the PREEMPT_RT patch (at
>> least version 2.6.29.6), full SMP support and boots in few seconds!
>> The MicroCore version needs only 6MB ...
> Anybody else nostalgic about the times where it took around 10kB to host
> a realtime multi-tasking operating system including self-hosting target
> compiler?
>
> And the challenge was to fit bootstrap loader and operating system on
> one track of the floppy disk?
>
> Heck, the first UNIXes I used regularly were quite workable with 4MB of
> main memory.
I developed years ago a control system for an automatic store system
based on Xenix 1.x and Informix for a 512kB machine.
So 4MB seems to be very huge :)
--Armin
PS: TinyCore is an issue for the guys addicted to the embedded
real-time stuff ... based on the 2.6 kernel !
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 8:10 preempt rt in commercial use Raz
2010-09-14 9:04 ` Rolando Martins
2010-09-14 9:10 ` Raz
2010-09-14 9:20 ` Rolando Martins
2010-09-14 9:17 ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2010-09-14 9:24 ` Raz
2010-09-14 9:44 ` Robert Schwebel
2010-09-14 12:16 ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-14 13:04 ` Daniel James
2010-09-14 13:08 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-14 22:11 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-14 13:09 ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-14 13:17 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14 13:37 ` Darcy Watkins
2010-09-14 13:58 ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-14 14:21 ` Jeff Angielski
2010-09-14 14:30 ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2010-09-14 14:49 ` Jeff Angielski
2010-09-14 22:20 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 7:48 ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-15 14:09 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 14:45 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-16 10:17 ` Daniel James
2010-09-16 10:35 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-16 15:19 ` Raz
2010-09-15 15:38 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-15 16:02 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-16 0:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 15:27 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-16 17:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 19:27 ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16 19:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-15 13:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 14:44 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-15 12:48 ` Sergio Ruocco
2010-09-15 12:53 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-15 14:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-15 16:27 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2010-09-16 0:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 5:06 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14 14:56 ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-14 15:42 ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-14 17:38 ` Gregory Haskins
2010-09-14 22:09 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 6:22 ` Patrice Kadionik
[not found] ` <4C90CF71.2050205@us.ibm.com>
2010-09-15 13:56 ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-15 14:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-14 10:06 ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-14 11:00 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14 9:28 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-14 14:13 ` Reagan Thomas
2010-09-15 7:09 ` AW: " Lukas Redlinger
2010-09-15 3:38 ` jordan
2010-09-15 8:59 ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-15 11:03 ` TinxCore and PREEMPT_RT Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16 9:38 ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-16 11:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-09-16 11:51 ` Armin Steinhoff [this message]
2010-09-15 14:03 ` preempt rt in commercial use Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 17:29 ` Reagan Thomas
2010-09-16 10:39 ` Daniel James
2010-09-16 20:47 ` jordan
2010-09-16 10:07 ` Daniel James
2010-09-16 20:37 ` jordan
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