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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:18:42 -0500
From:      Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: "Crochet" build tool
Message-ID:  <2DEC61CB-C9F3-4A55-9C4E-32A95A38809B@netgate.com>
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On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 26 March 2013 12:58, Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>=20
>>> These aren't unsolvable problems. :-)
>>=20
>> No, but none of them currently exist for non-x86 platforms, either.
>=20
> Right.
>=20
> And the flipside is that people may actually benefit from having the
> embedded view of things enforced for atom appliance builds. You may
> not _want_ to have a full FreeBSD install on some small atom
> appliance.

Atom?  I ship a few hundred Geode systems / month with nanobsd on-board.  A p=
roper embedded environment would be a revaluation.=20

By the time people move up to Atom, they're making noise about 4GB of ram, S=
SDs and SATA drives.

> Anyway, it's desperately waiting for someone to make happen.

Agreed.=20




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