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Small reason to use Linux--Linux has taken over the embedded market. Hardware vendors (e.g., Broadcom, Intel) offer BSP (board support packages) for Linux but n
by linuxlizard 11y ago
Small reason to use Linux--Linux has taken over the embedded market. Hardware vendors (e.g., Broadcom, Intel) offer BSP (board support packages) for Linux but not any of the BSDs.
The BSP in embedded does sort-of what the PC BIOS does. The BSP is the code to bring the microcontroller from cold start to booting something. Booting Linux is supported by large vendors.
Embedded hardware vendors also offer Linux drivers. Not so much anything else.
- ausjke 11y agoThis is indeed true, systemd was the one thing triggered me to check with BSD again after quite a few years. Netbsd used to be the embedded BSD flavor, but comparing to linux it's nearly nothing these days. linux thrived in the embedded OS space and pushed aside QNX, OS9, Vxworks, WinCE and NetBSD.