From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 05:14:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42C838C for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Received: from monday.kientzle.com (99-115-135-74.uvs.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.115.135.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CB5B09 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from root@localhost) by monday.kientzle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) id r0V5EklH052069; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:14:47 GMT (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Received: from [192.168.2.143] (CiscoE3000 [192.168.1.65]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id ac4u63ryyna8hyhbd4qezfg9di; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Subject: Re: Some ideas on Tim's script Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:14:46 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com> To: george@ceetonetechnology.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:14:56 -0000 On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:24 AM, George Rosamond wrote: >=20 > But first, with 8G images, I had to adjust the config.sh's SD_SIZE = below 7900 for Kingston SD Cards to fit. I can give more specifics if = desired. Anyone else experience that? I have a bunch of different SD cards around here -- different sizes, different manufacturers -- and I think every one is 50MB-100MB smaller than the advertised size. > In terms of /etc/fstab, I think adding tmpfs to the kernel would be = useful. Without it, using md(4) for /var/log, /tmp and /var/tmp is = certainly a nice way to minimize disk writes. How well does this work on a machine with only 256MB RAM? > It might also make sense to add rc_debug=3D"YES" and rc_info=3D"YES" = to the default /etc/rc.conf. Most users are testing right now, and it's = only logical for the pool of people hacking on them. I wasn't aware of those options; I'll add them. One of my wish-list items is to figure out how to buildkernel with a config file stored outside of /usr/src. Then it would be possible to have a kernel config as part of the beaglebsd setup files, separate from the config in /usr/src that seems to be optimized for kernel debugging. > And maybe to add the relevant ntpdate(8) settings to /etc/rc.conf. Has anyone tried running ntpdate from devd? So that when/if the network interface initializes, ntpdate gets run at that point. That would avoid the tedious delay if there's no network at boot time. Tim