[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: [IP] To keep a Boeing Dreamliner flying, reboot once every 248 days A software bug again

[David Lang]

On Mon, 4 May 2015, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> On Mon, 4 May 2015 10:21:53 -0700 (PDT)
> David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>
>> The kernel starts the clock at -some hours so that it hits a wrap-around not
>> that long after startup.
>>
>> David Lang
>
> That went in in 2.5 development cycle. I wouldn't be have surprised if Boeing
> was using 2.4 kernel given the length of development time for a flight chassis.

I'd actually be a bit surprised if they were using Linux for this at all.

I was referring to Dave Taht's desire to test embedded devices.

David Lang