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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Linh Dang <linh@home.earth>
Cc: "Embedded Linux PPC list" <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Linux is not reliable enough?
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040725162332.05AC2C109F@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:02:15 EDT." <wn5pt6mw1jc.fsf@linhd-2.ca.nortel.com>


In message <wn5pt6mw1jc.fsf@linhd-2.ca.nortel.com> you wrote:
>
> Well, X server doesn't run in the same vm space as the
> kernel. however, on my PC, X is the thing that would most likely to
> put the system into an unusable state (frozen keyboard, mouse and
> screen).

This just means that X is crashed. I'm  pretty  sure  the  system  is
stillr  unning  fine, and you can for example login over the network.
This example has lttle relevance to embedded system.

> QNX's drivers run in their own process space but they still have
> direct access to the hardware. A driver can screw up the hw regardless
> whatever vm-sandbox in which it run.

Indeed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-25 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-22 12:00 random ramblings on 8xx patches (long and tedious :-) Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-22 17:46 ` Matt Porter
2004-07-23 12:34   ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-23 13:36     ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-23 14:09       ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-23 14:56         ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found]         ` <410123EE.4000602@intracom.gr>
2004-07-23 15:56           ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-23 17:22           ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-23 21:06             ` Linux is not reliable enough? Kevin P. Dankwardt
2004-07-24  3:02               ` Linh Dang
2004-07-24  6:29                 ` Der Herr Hofrat
2004-07-25 16:23                 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2004-07-24 11:35               ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-24 22:14                 ` MPC8245 Error No. 26 DeLaGarza, Robert
2004-07-26  7:49                 ` Linux is not reliable enough? Marius Groeger
2004-07-26 13:46                   ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-26 14:31                     ` Der Herr Hofrat
2004-07-26 15:42                     ` Marius Groeger
2004-07-27 11:20                     ` Robert Kaiser
2004-07-27 13:29                       ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-24 21:44               ` Sylvain Munaut
2004-07-25  3:00             ` Could 2_4_devel support RPXlite DW LCD panel? Song Sam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-27 14:41 Linux is not reliable enough? Wells, Charles
2004-07-27 15:20 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-27 15:59 Mészáros Lajos
2004-07-27 17:10 ` Oliver Korpilla
2004-07-27 23:08   ` Conn Clark

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