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Before the 2.6.25 merge window closed...
Before the 2.6.25 merge window closed...
Posted Feb 25, 2008 14:04 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557)In reply to: Before the 2.6.25 merge window closed... by nix
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Hi Nix, Usually you're pretty accurate, but I have to disagree with you here: > Nobody sane ever compiles Linux on an embedded system (by definition if > it's embedded it's too small to do that sort of thing) I work on embedded systems here, and technically speaking there's no reason why you couldn't build the Linux kernel using them. It would take a lot longer, but it's perfectly doable. (I've compiled small things on the boards before, because it was just more convenient at the time.) So I think, really, your definition of embedded might need updating. You could always define embedded as something too small to compile Linux. ;-)
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Before the 2.6.25 merge window closed...
Posted Feb 25, 2008 21:48 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Wow. Embedded systems have surely grown since I did anything with them. Can you really call a system 'embedded' if it has the 128Mb+ RAM practically needed to compile a kernel these days? (If you don't have swap, like many embedded systems, make that 256Mb.) If it has that much RAM, you could probably stick Perl on it without hardly noticing, at least on your development box.
Before the 2.6.25 merge window closed...
Posted Feb 26, 2008 11:42 UTC (Tue) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]
Like I said, it depends on your definition of embedded, I guess. I work with set-top boxes, which most people tend to regard as embedded. I suppose you could start to define it by the amount of RAM and CPU power available. :-) I'd notice putting Perl on it, but that's because I'd have to build it first. Python doesn't seem to like cross-compiling for mipsel; no idea if Perl is better. (For what it's worth, the dev system here has both 256Mb and an attached hard disk I could use for swap if needed. Production boards can be differently configured, though.) Oh - I wasn't actually commenting on the Perl dependency for the kernel build, btw, just the view of embedded systems.