On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Blair <> wrote:
> My personal wish list for a 7260 includes the following:
>
> 1) Fast boot and power-loss tolerant file system e.g. EXT3. Why? My goal is
> to build an appliance that places no demands on the user to gracefully start
> up or shut down. Flip a main power switch on or off and expect it to come up
> quickly and in a predictable amount of time. The user should also be able to
> disconnect the battery powering the system without concern that it's going to
> take more than the normal startup time to reboot.
Cold shutdown is difficult to solve. Main thing is flushing writes so
the system is in a consistent state.
> 2) Compiled-in USB drivers, not modules.
I would settle for working USB ;) Any reason for compiled in over
modules? Assuming the modules work and are stable?
Reason is that compiled in will mean a bigger memory footprint for
those who don't use those features.
> 3) 2.6.whatever is most recent and stable.
Seconded.
> 4) Working 802.11
Seconded.
> 5) Higher resolution system clock. IIRC, 2.4 used a 100 Hz clock and 2.6
> uses 250 Hz. IIRC, you can build it to run at 1k Hz.
Isn't this a hardware issue?
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