Re: Using XPe in real embedded systems

From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 10/06/04


Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:22:54 +0200

Hi Dietmar,

Yes normal startup you can expect above 20s + BIOS startup time.
Resume from HDD can be extremely fast.

If you have one or two non-boot critical drivers that do not support hibernation. You can make an ugly workaround.

Make sure that you do not install drivers before you run following program.
Make program that will.
1. Copy driver files to their places. Remove all driver hardware nodes, and do all other pre installation operations.
2. Hibernate but program should stay active after resume.
Resume:
3. Wait for all drivers to install. (There is a small chance that you might need to tell PnP to reenumerate hardware)
4. Run your program.

This should work.

Best regards,
Slobodan

"Dietmar Lenz" <DietmarLenz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:029097C2-7F60-41D8-8D9C-E288AF2AD1EA@microsoft.com...
> Hi Slobodan,
>
> we want to use this PC in a car. You start the engine and - no, you can not
> start driving, you wait for the startup of the measuretment-PC. A few seconds
> is about 3 seconds like an ECU in a car, but 20-30 seconds seems to be a fast
> start up for XPe.
>
> Hibernation is only working when all hardware is suporting it. We use a
> CAN-card in this PC wich did not support hibernation - bad.
> By the way: I do not know any CAN card wich supports hibernation. If you /
> anyone know ...
>
> We want to use this one: Nano Server E3-L or M-R on this site:
> http://www.dsm-computer.de/pr_embeddedpc-en.html
>
>
>
> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" wrote:
>
> > Hi Dietmar,
> >
> > I'm actually interested in what "few seconds" exactly means.
> > Please read in SP2 documentation about new feature "How to Configure EWF to Boot from a Hibernation File"
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Slobodan
> >
> > "Dietmar Lenz" <Dietmar Lenz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:59FC830D-3E73-436B-9956-627AC6EBDF14@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
> > > I want to use XPe on an embedded PC.
> > > Embedded PC means for me this:
> > > - I power up the PC and a few seconds later it ist ready to work with
> > > ( XPe needs some more seconds to boot, but its ok... )
> > > - After I end my job, I will switch off the PC without run a long shutdown
> > > - While working with this PC, ther are some files open...
> > > If the power is switched off now,like a powerfailure the PC mußt start at
> > > next boot normaly. The open files will be lost, but the XPe must be safe.
> > > ( this should work with the EWF, a sealed partition for XPe and a partition
> > > on wich tempfiles and configurationfiles could be write. Is it true ??? )
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help
> > > Dietmar
> >
> >
> >



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