Re: Roadblocks to further widespread adoption of NetBSD in embedded systems (at least in my neck of the woods)

Jack Atkinson <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:10:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 3/26/2010 11:29 PM, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Jack Atkinson<[email protected]>  wrote:
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>> 2. No flash support for NOR flash (NAND lacking is well, but NOR is more
>> important for this company based on current deployed hardware)
>> 3.  Better remote debugging over ethernet (kernel included).  I may be wrong
>> on this, but I haven't seen a lot of info on how to do this for NetBSD.
>> 4. Ability to build a small kernel with small subset of userland utilities
>> much like BusyBox on Linux, but not GPL.
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> My goal is to provide a nice build interface to build 1MB kernel&  1MB
> userland.  Those embedded developers should not edit ugly config files
> and "list" file for crunched binaries.
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That would be excellent! How soon?;-)