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Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU


From: Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin <felipe () starbyte net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:31:41 +0000

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:
If you're on supported CPU's, the BSD's are likely to be a better
choice if you want to avoid legal entanglements.  Otherwise, if you
don't mind code disclosure, Linux supports more platforms.  Both
are relatively mature, feature-full operating systems when used for
embedded applications.

If your silicon vendor supports BSD's, of course.
From my (little) experience most vendors SDK will be available to
Linux and vxWorks but not BSD.
This limits companies that are building equipments based on third
parties ASIC to use anything but Linux.

My 0.02...
Felipe


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