>The major thing that is keeping the big boys away is the lack of
>tools...and I mean refined tools like Lineo is proposing. Right now, you
>have to know quite a bit in order to build up a decent rootfs for Linux
>especially if you want to use sysvinit etc. A good toolset will make that
>really easy for a non-Linux savvy embedded software engineer to come up
>to speed and churn out applications. Embedded application houses will
>pay for that and a support contract.
I second that. It took me maybe 3 days to get Linux booting out of ROM but I'm
completely lost when it comes to the rest of the configuration necessary for a
complete system. Such as non-root-users, init, shutdown (as in
pulling-the-plug-shutdown), maintenance etc. Not to mention that I have yet to
investigate some sort of flash storage/fs. Granted, I haven't dig to deep yet, lots of
16-bit non-protected code to convert first and concepts to be invented.
All in all, it takes a very different set of knowledge to make a complete Linux
enviroment than what I, as an embedded engineer, have. Tools/how-to's simplifying this
process would be a real boon.
//Cheers, Björn "Hope my English teacher isn't subscribed to this list..." Eriksson.
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