From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cpsmtpb-ews08.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.39.13]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1WUv4o-0002i9-9i for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:33:51 +0000 Message-ID: <533A87F5.9080400@erwinrol.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:33:41 +0200 From: Erwin Rol MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20140401090229.GT17250@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <20140401090229.GT17250@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Introducing barebOS To: Sascha Hauer , barebox@lists.infradead.org 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 > _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox