> From: Mike Looijmans > > "Embedded" in my world is not about RAM or disk size. It's about > building a device that has a set task in life, and nothing is as > important as that one task. Whether that's running on an i7 > or an M3 is irrelevant. > > For a system to acquire and process sensor data, record your > favorite TV > shows, or guide a missile, there's no need for a full fledged > bash shell > interpreter. It just needs a bit of plumbing to get the > application up > and running, and that's about it. > > Busybox is for systems like that. For these systems, anything more is > overkill, and will waste resources and increase the boot time.
If you've got a 1GB eSSD drive, because that's the smallest you can buy, having a 382MB image rather than a 346MB image isn't a waste of anything. How much boot time increase do you think you'll get from full-featured command line tools? I'd be surprised if it was noticeable to anyone. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[email protected] -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
