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Why wouldn't you just use Linux for embedded systems? Seems wasteful to use a GUI-based OS for something that will most likely be a single-purpose device.
by heyjonboy 16y ago
Why wouldn't you just use Linux for embedded systems? Seems wasteful to use a GUI-based OS for something that will most likely be a single-purpose device.
- mahmud 16y agoToolchain and development cycle. Windows 95 systems programming is trivial, and not in a good way. You can access privileged system registers and memory areas directly, until you crash your box. Once you learn how to write a VxD it's a matter of tweaking it for other purposes, since the great difficulty lies in just getting the skeleton to work.
- nitrogen 16y agoLinux is mostly that easy, in my experience. It may be easier, since there are probably already drivers for most of your chips. At any rate, once you have a skeleton kernel mode driver, it's just a matter of tweaking it for other purposes.