Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Mar 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > The big advantage is that when you don't have a small custom > > driver you can just reuse the linux one. Which might be good > > for handling the development time versus code size tradeoff. > > that's very good. As I recall they can also use freebsd drivers.
Correct. Oskit certainly looks like some more work to get going than redboot, but without the license hassles. But irregardless there a significant number of things we have to do the work for anyway. As a starting point it looks like a good foundation. Especially if we still aim at providing simple polled drivers for common devices, and just use the other drivers. If nothing else it can serve as a good plaform for the question how do you make the linux kernel small :) Anyway we have plenty of options so we shouldn't be bottlenecked by other projects that don't work for us. Long term if the assumeing the openbios stuff is useable we should be able to have that as our interface to devices that need weird NDA'd initialiation. Anyway the next step on this piece is contact oskit maintainers and see if they like the idea of working with us. Eric
