Re: [Nolug] next month's meeting: embedded Linux

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 02/23/08 11:25, Matthew Dooner wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >> On 02/22/08 17:43, Matthew Dooner wrote:
> >> > I subscribed to this list earlier this week (Thanks for the help Joey)
> >> > but things got busy and work and I never got around to posting an
> >> > introduction. I figured this thread was an appropriate place.
> >> >
> >> > My name is Matt Dooner, I graduated from Tulane Computer Science a
> >> > year ago, and now work for a Metairie startup called GrayMatter
> >>
> >> An offshoot of the team that almost(?) won the 2006 DARPA Grand
> >> Challenge?
> >
> > Yeah we're the offshoot from the team that finished 4th in the 2005
> > Grand Challenge. We also much less successfully competed in the Urban
> > Challenge in October. We got eliminated from the qualifying event at
> > the last test when we encountered some sort of GPS interference /
> > outage.
>
> Sorry to hear that.
>
>
> >> > (http://www.graymatterinc.com). We build systems to drive otherwise
> >> > ordinary passenger vehicles autonomously, and until about a month ago
> >> > we had been using embedded linux on the computers inside our
> >> > equipment.
> >>
> >> That sounds very ominous...
> >
> > We switched to QNX from BlueCat Linux because of cost, driver issues,
>
> Do the h/w vendors write QNX drivers?

I actually don't know who writes most of the QNX drivers. Its probably
a mix of QNX, vendors, and the community.

> > and compatibility with the real time Java VM we use.
>
> Real-time Java? Snide comments started being formed as I read that
> phrase...

http://www.aonix.com/
Laugh as you might, it works pretty well as long as you don't throw
too much at the garbage collector.

> > I have managed to
>
> Have, or have *not*?

And that is a "have not"

> > convince anyone else that rolling our own embedded linux was a good
> > idea.
>
>
>
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