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ELC Releases Embedded Linux Standard v1.0
An anonymous reader writes "The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) formally announced its release of the ELC Platform Specification (ELCPS) version 1.0 this week. This LinuxDevices.com Special Report includes the full text of the ELC's announcement, a whitepaper about the ELCPS standard, a newly updated "frequently asked questions" document, a roundup of news coverage, a poll, a discussion thread, and the spec itself."
You seem to be making the mistake of thinking that there's just one sort of embedded application.
Sure there are embedded applications and devices for which linux is probably inappropriate, but so what? Linux won't get used there. However, the word `embedded' covers a lot of ground, and there are many embedded applications and devices for which linux is a perfectly fine solution -- and that's where linux will be (and is) used.
[Morever, as another post pointed out, the hardware used for embedded devices is continually getting more powerful, for any given application, making linux more and more practical.]
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Linux already satisfies the four most popular criteria: Real Time capabilities ...
How is that? Surely you are not speaking of the great RTLinux hack? I mean RTLinux != Linux. It _runs_ Linux and can communicate with Linux, but as far as I'm concerned this is not a solution I would choose unless I _really_ had to use Linux for one reason or an other.
Linux itself is NOT real time and it will probably take a while (if ever) to achieve that. The kernel design is just not right for it (I'm not saying the kernel design is not right though).
Anyways, this has been discussed several times, and I think the most important thing here is that very few embedded apps actually need real-time behaviour. I've used Linux once in an embedded system and it performed beyond expectation.
But I wish people quit claiming Linux was real-time when it simply is not. Running an other OS which loads Linux as a sub-task doesn't make Linux real-time. And I really don't think you're going to fool any embedded developer.