On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 08:16:55PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:44 PM Paul E. McKenney > <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > Does anyone do kernel-only deployments, for example, setting up an > > embedded device having a Linux kernel and absolutely no userspace > > whatsoever? > > Isn't that basically the original porting guide from VxWorks to Linux?
I haven't seen that document, but if you say so. The TimeSys appnote suggests using Linux userspace, but I can easily imagine cases where porting the VxWorks "application" into the Linux kernel. But do you really believe that supporting Linux-kernel-only deployments in mainline would be something worth doing? Who aside from rcutorture would really use such a thing? Thanx, Paul > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > ge...@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > that. > -- Linus Torvalds >