John I would be interested. I just re-signed up to yahoo. But frankly that was a bit flaky. Something about you have to be invited in or checked out or something. Never did get a response back. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Mendes <[email protected]> wrote: > > We should have a "Broadband Time-nuts" for this sort of thing. This topic > is also of interest to me, and I have good pointers to give about how to > implement it with minimum effort, but as the owner asked it to stop before > I could reply i´m keeping quiet :) > > Daniel > > Em 02/03/2014 19:09, John Miles escreveu: > > This is actually pretty interesting to me. The questions of how to choose >> an RTOS and how to handle power management seem to be relevant engineering >> topics when discussing the 5370 processor boards. It's not an academic >> question in the professional world, where certain instruments I won't name >> are based on a BSD variant running from a CF card with no power management >> at all. The designers of those instruments blew off the issue entirely, >> as >> some are suggesting here. As a result, users have to be warned explicitly >> not to power down the box immediately after changing any parameters >> (whatever that means), because it's been a genuine support problem for the >> company in the past. That is not even remotely OK in my view, in either >> an >> amateur or professional context. >> >> My own embedded design experience has mostly been with trivial 8-bit >> applications at the low end and PC-hosted peripherals at the high end, so >> I >> don't have much insight into the middle ground where modern controller >> boards running full-fledged OSes need to operate autonomously. So the >> thread has been an educational read for me, and very much on-topic. >> >> For those who don't want to deal with the thread drift, would it make >> sense >> to set up a separate group on febo.com, Yahoo Groups, or elsewhere to >> discuss these sorts of topics as they apply to John's 5370 work? >> >> -- john, KE5FX >> Miles Design LLC >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:time-nuts- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Van Baak >>> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 2:31 PM >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available >>> >>> >>> But we really are drifting away from the main thread. >>>> >>> Yes, indeed. It's time to wrap up the operating system and file system >>> tangents and get back to time & frequency. >>> >>> Those of you with positive suggestions for improvements of the 5370 >>> processor mod kit can email them to John Seamons directly. He has done an >>> incredible job and the direction this thread has taken is unfortunate. >>> >>> /tvb >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi- >>> bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
