Quoting Nenhum_de_Nos <math...@eternamente.info> (from Tue, 14 Feb
2012 10:49:56 -0200):
On Tue, February 14, 2012 08:31, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Embedded devices are out of the scope of this, normally you do a lot
of other modifictions to such systems anyway, so a custom kernel
should be not a big problem.
I will also not touch the dual-stack part of the kernel config (it
shall still allow the generic purpose computing like the GERNERIC
config).
I'm really curious why, if they are the piece of hardware that
usually are worse to compile things
on, for access issues to poor hardware (great to compile
kernel+world on i7, pain to do so in my
net5501-70).
Typically embedded environments have a different goal regarding the
kernel, than a normal server/desktop. In an embedded sytem RAM and
disc space may be very limited and as such you need to get rid of a
lot of things you want to have in a server kernel. A server is also
some kind of generic purpose device, whereas an embedded system is a
special purpose device. If we do not know the special purpose of the
device, we can not provide a suitable kernel for it (a NAS has other
requirements than a router, firewall, WLAN access point or multimedia
system).
Regarding the compile time issue you talked about: cross compiling a
world/kernel is supported by FreeBSD.
It may be not a bad idea to provide examples of special purpose
kernels with FreeBSD, but this is a completely different topic I (as
the thread started) want to discuss in this thread about the work _I_
want to do and need input from the community for. You are off course
free to open a new thread to discuss the kernel-config of special
purpose devices.
Bye,
Alexander.
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