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[tyson at irobot.com]

Li-Ta Lo wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
>>As for CF.  I guess I have only seen LANL doing that, and it
>>seems a little unsatisfactory.  There is no reason why beoboot
>>needs that much space for example.
>>
> 
> 
> I bet there are a lot of people using CF in the embedded world, they 
> can't use Etherboot to fetch the kernel from the net as you do. We 
> should not only think about HPC applications. People in embedded
> market are in different enviroment and have different cost structure
> than you.

I haven't been following many linuxbios threads but this one caught my eye.

Though we are still using a very old version of Linuxbios and thus not 
currently doing any development here :-( we do boot from a CF and the 
ability to do so is very important.

Ollie is right, embedded usage patterns are VERY different from HPC.

Cheers!
Ty


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