On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Matthieu Ternisien d'Ouville < matthieu....@6wind.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Isaac Dunham <ibid...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:35:46PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:27:12PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> > > > Show me one typical embedded system that is high-volume and has >> more than >> > > > 64 cores. Even the full-fledged iphone tablets are not there and >> even if >> > > > they were, they would use complete utils rather than chopped most >> > > probably >> > > > anyhow. To me, this feature does not seem to fit busybox's goal >> unless >> > > > Apple, Samsung, etc were not notified about some recent boom in the >> > > > semiconductor industry. >> > > >> > > Embedded != consumer electronics. >> > > >> > >> > Not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, but you wrote embedded >> > systems _word-by-word_, and I asked for one typical example with more >> than >> > 64 cores where busybox is so much needed. >> >> I'm pretty sure that Matthieu (the patch author) just said that 6wind >> (his company) >> uses or builds the sort of hardware where this is relevant. >> >> > Yes, for example we have a TILEGX72 pci express card which does not have > an hard drive. And even if there is a lot of RAM, we don't want to use it > for the filesystem, the RAM is reserved for other function. > Right, thank you. Please put this into the commit message next time. This is very important information for accepting a change. Theoretical changes without practice does not make any sense, so if you can show the practice, that makes a huge difference and more sense.
_______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox