Introducing barebOS

[Erwin Rol]

You could use a small Linux system with an adapted kexec to boot
barebOS.  That way barebOS doesn't have to bother with the boot processes.

- Erwin


On 1-4-2014 11:02, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> barebox more and more comes in the area that is has everything an
> operating system needs:
> 
> - support for all kinds of storage devices
> - support for various different fileystems
> - Cooperative multitasking with the poller mechanism
> - memory management in form of malloc/free and iospace resources
> - drivers for Networking, MMC, USB, UARTs, Framebuffer devices, (S)ATA,
>   SPI, I2C, W1, Keyboard, EEPROMs, LEDs
> 
> I therefore decided that it's no longer necessary to have the overhead
> of Linux at all. The project will be renamed to barebOS in the next few
> days. Support for booting Linux will be dropped as soon as some the
> remaining missing features are added, like for example a working vi
> applet and nodejs integration. I'm looking forward to your feedback!
> 
> Sascha
>