From owner-freebsd-small Wed Oct 7 13:37:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16685 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16624 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.59.122]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA104E; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:37:08 +0200 X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:33:36 +0200 To: Andrzej Bialecki , "Christopher G. Petrilli" From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: New microdrives from IBM Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <771898F0E7A.AAA104E@smtp02.wxs.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 19:31 07-10-98 , Andrzej Bialecki wrote: >On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote: > >> BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for >> reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find >> anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support >> up to 72MB of FlashDisk. While I understand the need to conservce >> space---if not the need to spell correctly ---I think that it is >> important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we >> can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making >> sure it fits in all forms. > >This touches one very important issue: currently used way to build the >target picobsd system is as inflexible and inconvenient as it could ever >get.. :-( We need _some_ way of making it more modular, and easier to >modify, without requiring a total recompile each time... Any ideas are >welcome (about half a year ago I tried to create a picobsd version which >used separate binaries and shared libs... and failed miserably - the whole >thing was much bigger and consumed much more memory...). That's what I have been nagging about in my last few posts =) We need to 'develop'/establish a method of modular building under the FreeBSD box we have at out disposal. I am going to need to switch to my FreeBSD partition for all my work instead of this NT partition. Hard to switch from one system to another completely ;) I shall try to put something on paper tomorrow about how to achieve the goal in my eyes and will then mail it to the group. Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message