On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:31:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > In the OSADL safety working group, people are discussing about Linux > > for safety critical applications. If we want to achieve such > > scenarios, stripped-down systems are an absolute must. > >... > > My first reaction is that as soon as you enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED you > can easily enter codepaths noone else has used for a while and that > got unnoticed broken. That may be no problem; if we ever come to a safety kernel, it will have to be audited and carefully tested anyway. rsc -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
