Subject: Re: Looking ahead
To: Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/05/2007 10:25:41
Hi Ivo,
Thanks for the suggestions. Can you clarify / expand some on these?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:42:31AM +0300, Ivo Vachkov wrote:
> * tiny & full tcp/ip stack (like QNX for example)
If we're defining a "tiny & full" tcp/ip stack, it would be useful
to identify what "tiny" and "full" mean. Can you elaborate? I
have some idea what I would mean by that, but would like to hear
what you would be willing to give up.
> * most of the base system tools as installable packages
Why, specifically? I wonder if this is similar to or different
from the "build to image" functionality I mentioned. The idea
there is that you would have some kind of configuration tied to
the source tree and you would build a complete "firmware" image
directly.
> * mesh routing protocol implementations
What protocols? References?
> * sensor support
What kind of sensor support? I know that we can do a good deal
better on x86, but we do have a fair number of sensors supported
in base right now. Are you just talking about hardware support
or software / monitoring / alarms / etc.?
> * modular 'control-external-hardware' API
Are there any implementations that you know of out there? Either
as examples or things that might be worth importing?
Thanks again!
-allen
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