RE: embedded emc

[Scot Rogers <scotr-at-bogwell.com>]

Okay,

There's too much to ask about the things that you wrote.  I think that you
just opened a billion doors for a billion questions.  Most likely because
I'm really new to linux and emc...3 months, and only about 10 hours of hack
time.

I'll narrow down things to one question about what you wrote.


What's the timeframe on the embedded system? Beta or 1.0, either.





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~-----Original Message-----
~From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Brian Pitt
~Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:33 PM
~To: Multiple recipients of list
~Subject: Re: embedded emc
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~
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~Hey again Scot
~
~yep this is another project I'm fiddling with ,I just got a
~2.4.17+rtai kernel
~compiled with support for some of the embedded filesystems built in
~(cramfs ,ramfs ,devfs ,autofs and jffs2)
~to use on a compact flash card to IDE disk adapter board I picked up
~there are also some drivers for memory technology devices like the
~'disk-on-chip' modules from sandisk in the 2.4.x kernels
~
~documentation for doing embeded system work with Linux is spread
~pretty thin and wide right now but I think I've got enough to work with
~(I hope..)
~I'll be using a minimal set of utilitys ,stripping un-needed symbols out
~of the standard libraries adding tinyX with a lightweight window manager
~and EMC then compressing the whole thing and running out of ram partitions
~with a small writable partition on flash for user files and configuration
~I'm aiming to run on a 16Mb compact flash but I'd still be happy
~if it takes
~a 32Mb card
~it will also be powerfail safe so there will be no need for the usual
~Linux shutdown procedure and I've got it booting with no login prompt
~it should look alot like a 'shop floor' control OS before too long
~
~Brian
~
~> There's a buzz in the linux community currently regarding embedding the
~> linux OS into a bios or bios like chip.  Could there be anything
~like that
~> available for EMC if that's the case?
~>
~> If there isn't, it might be a really good direction to go.
~Think about it
~> EMC motherboards....
~>
~> Scot
~