Stephen Hahn wrote:
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]:
Hi,
To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in
talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a
new discussion forum, embedded-discuss.
The purpose of this forum would be to discuss issues related to creating
an embedded system using Solaris (or OpenSolaris), including driving new
direction/projects to do work in making this space more attractive.
Topics I can think of now to be included:
- licensing
- [cross] building
- target platforms
- installation
- packaging
- driver support
I'm willing to volunteer to be one of the community leaders in
this forum to get it up and running but obviously some others
put their hands up too.
Comments? Criticisms?
Is this the right path to start down to request a new forum/community?
Sort of. If you want a project, then this is fine. If you want a
community, then I would suggest talking with the Appliance community,
since they appear to overlap.
(General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of
opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should
start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with
installation and packaging already.)
Ah, appliance is getting closer to what would be relevant here.
It might be easier to expand the goals of the appliance community
rather than create an entirely new one.
The only problem I would have with it is that it looks more like a
DIY forum rather than one you would use if you're working at
company XYZ and want to build an embedded product using
(Open)Solaris.
Adding a few extra key words onto the web pages for appliance
would help people searching for information about Solaris for
use in embedded systems, too.
My experience and interactions with people doing embedded
work is that their problems and approach to problems such as
installation/packaging are quite different to those normally found
with installation of an operating system.
Maybe it is time to bootstrap a project or two in the appliance
community to generate some more interest and activity there?
Darren
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