Introducing barebOS

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On Apr 5, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 10:53:19 +0800
> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
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>>> 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.
I known but was busy handling a huge IP stealing case from a Silicon Vendor

Best Regards,
J.
> 
>>> Sascha
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>  Antony Pavlov