Why Linux?

[joecar]

Wow , like this , no I am not a coder .http://porno-bullen.de/~bluebird/initrd-qla2xxx/readme.txt
Kernel compile , haven't done that in years (first learned with SuSE) , ah the good old days .

Yup, the qla2xxx driver is seeing that that particluar "embedded" card's nvram does not contain a valid wwpn (world wide port name, the FC analog of Ethernet's MAC address) so it complained, but still allowed operation.

[mistermike]

I work integrating and testing IBM P and I series servers. They will soon be offering Linux preloads as an alternative to AIX. Don't know which flavor yet. This is interesting considering how much Big Blue likes their proprietary O/S's.

[98 tigershark]

Helloo Joe,

You mean unix I think.
Linux is like kind but not the same.
Regards,
98 tigershark

Subscribing to new thread as I have Mac OSX (linux).

[joecar]

98TS, yes, I have since found out it's a Unix derivative...

[98 tigershark]

Does anyone here know what OS your PCM uses?
98 tigershark
Think Ross Perot!
Hint, Ross Perot put up the majority of the venture capital for Steve Jobs's NeXT computer project in 1986.

[GMPX]

Does anyone here know what OS your PCM uses?

Nothing hacked from a PC, it's just a custom written embedded OS by GM/Delphi.

[98 tigershark]

You got me pretty good earlier. I actually think the answer is EDS! Ross Perots Company and PCM system he sold to GM or so I am told.
98 tigershark

Nothing hacked from a PC, it's just a custom written embedded OS by GM/Delphi.

[gmh308]

Nothing hacked from a PC, it's just a custom written embedded OS by GM/Delphi.

Yeah I guess anything that ran on a PC would be too risky with their tendencies to go into the "standard feature" limbo mode for seconds at a time.... PC's even with Linux dont seem to handle real time all that well.

[GMPX]

There is no markers in there to say who wrote it, so I am guessing it was done in house. Unlike Bosch who run ERCOSEK by ETAS.
http://www2.lauterbach.com/doc/rtosercosek.pdf

[98 tigershark]

I think Ross Perot did what Bill Gates did to the guy who invented DOS, purchased the system for peanuts and then Sold it to GM for 3 Billion. He also sold his company that ran the book keeping for Medicare to GM. The Company was called EDS, I think. That was the same company that GM also used the system they got from EDS for their EFI OBD, Right?
98 tigershark

Yeah I guess anything that ran on a PC would be too risky with their tendencies to go into the "standard feature" limbo mode for seconds at a time.... PC's even with Linux dont seem to handle real time all that well.