[157842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin)
Sun Nov 11 10:32:00 2012
In-Reply-To: <201211111241.qABCfcVi099436@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:31:41 +0000
From: Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin <felipe@starbyte.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
