From: Joe deBlaquiere (jadb@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 10:21:26 EST
Alessandro Rubini wrote: >> EtLinux sounds like a brother of uClinux, in many aspects. > > > Yes and no. It's small, but that's the end of similarities. It's > actually used only on x86 (to my knowledge) and requires MMU support > in the kernel. Most of the work was done in user space, to keep > it small. No busy box, though, just a Tcl interpreter for everything. > > Strangely people seem to have gotten the impression that the u in uClinux implies that the kernel is inherently smaller. This is not the case. It it in fact largely the same exact code. The real size saving has been in the use of uClibc (provided you can live within the functionality set). > As long as you use the normal "exec" command, it should not make any > difference. The trick to save memory in EtLinux, though, is in never > calling exec(2). This can't be used in uclinux. When I run my 68302 > demo with a web server and telnet server integrated in /sbin/init, > it will only serve static pages. > Sounds like what you need is a multithreaded init. uClinux is a 'no-forker' but it can clone with the best of them! -- Joe This message resent by the uclinux-dev@uclinux.org list server http://www.uClinux.org/
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