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 > > -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: > Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" > Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Host your business website for only $29/month! 1.877.GO.HIPPO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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