[fpc-devel] "embedded" again

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Jan 16 11:42:54 CET 2013


Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 01/15/2013 12:01 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> On old hardware, maybe, but these days ?
>>
> The topic of the thread is "embedded".
> 
> Here <you often use hardware featuring  rather restricted resources.
> 
> In many Linux tool config scripts the keyword "embedded" even still is 
> used as a synonym for MMU-less.

I think there's a distinction to be made between "embedded kernel" which 
might be MMU-less, and "embedded Linux" which is a standard Linux with 
filesystem, Busybox and a more-or-less-well obscured telnet port.

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