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Cool, here's something I can talk about! At Toradex we provide an operating system and OTA platform called Torizon which is Yocto-based but uses Debian contain
by leonheld 3y ago
Cool, here's something I can talk about!
At Toradex we provide an operating system and OTA platform called Torizon which is Yocto-based but uses Debian containers with custom packages for hardware acceleration, so our customers have the customisation of Yocto (if they so desire) while getting a very familiar programming environment (Debian). "The best of both worlds", so to say.
Customers are very happy to not deal with the usual Yocto mess.
[1] https://developer.toradex.com/torizon/provided-containers/debian-containers-for-torizon/ https://developer.toradex.com/torizon/provided-containers/de...
Disclosure: I'm a software engineer at Toradex.
- synergy20 3y agowhat's the hardware requirement for this to work efficiently(e.g. cpu freq, how many cores, memory,storage)? contains are sometimes heavy for many embedded boards where RAM and storage and power consumption are typically limited.
- leonheld 3y agoThe processing overhead is pretty minimal (take a look at our iMX6ULL, for example), because the containers are just fancy processes at the end of the day. The only real drawback we see is boot time, but you can optimise that as well.
- synergy20 3y agocontainer could be really heavy to me, as it shares nothing with the host(other than the kernel some volume mounting), lxc seems much light-weight to me as it shares the host libraries and packages.