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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:44:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PicoBSD going ELF & other news.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980923124420.22339D-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809231703180.23632-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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Big pat on the back for Andrzej :-)

I'll try and do some testing...


-marc

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is just to let you know that I've committed (hopefully) all necessary
> changes to build picobsd userland in ELF format. I checked that it builds
> ok and the floppies are working. The kernel is still a.out till the issues
> with the new bootloader clear up.
> 
> If you could spare an hour or two to check if they work for you, I'd be
> grateful to hear a report from you.
> 
> Other news:
> 
> * TinyWare collection includes now one more utility, named
>   'msg', which is a sysctl-based equivalent of normal 'dmesg'
> 
> * There is optional support for recently added bridging and bandwidth
>   limiting. Now you can build yourself not only a firewall, but also a
>   bridge and traffic shaper - very neat! :-). In order to use these
>   features you need to uncomment appropriate options in kernel config
>   file. Our tiny netstat (ns) has been modified to display bridging
>   statistics.
> 
> * "net" and "isp" floppies now use UCD-SNMP v. 3.5
> 
> * This is a bad news: we had to stop using DEVFS because currently it's
>   broken. This is sad because now again we have to create all necessary
>   device nodes in /dev manually, and they take a lot of space... :-((
> 
> * But the good news is that ELF binaries take less space compressed, so
>   in fact we have slightly more space on the floppy (but less space on
>   the MFS - uncompressed ELF binaries are a tiny fraction bigger, plus
>   the space for all /dev/* nodes).
> 
> That's more or less all for now...
> 
> Andrzej Bialecki
> 
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