On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:51:53 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick. > > > > Wow, that's insane. Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus > > that you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be > > the primary device to boot from. > > Let me see: > > - Standardised small component > - Low pin count and low wire count bus > - Cheap > > In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at > software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible. I'm not surprised usb is used for storage. What I am surprised at is that USB is used in such high end environments that rootwait is not sufficient and that the panic-rebooter is needed for the reliability. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
