Introducing barebOS

Antony Pavlov antonynpavlov at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 01:49:18 EDT 2014


On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 10:53:19 +0800
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> 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!
> 
> I’m not happy with the rename honestly
> 
> And why dropping he linux boot it’s a feature like others
> 

It's 1 april post.

> > Sascha
> > 
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  Antony Pavlov



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