On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:31:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> > In the OSADL safety working group, people are discussing about Linux
> > for safety critical applications. If we want to achieve such
> > scenarios, stripped-down systems are an absolute must.
> >...
>
> My first reaction is that as soon as you enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED you
> can easily enter codepaths noone else has used for a while and that
> got unnoticed broken.

That may be no problem; if we ever come to a safety kernel, it will have
to be audited and carefully tested anyway.

rsc
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