From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Jul 11 21:09:42 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A83915DDEBD for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:09:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samm@net-art.cz) Received: from zebra.net-art.cz (smtp-out.net-art.cz [IPv6:2001:1468::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "zebra.net-art.cz", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F00A6B134; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:09:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samm@net-art.cz) Received: by zebra.net-art.cz (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 91ECE32E5E; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:09:36 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=net-art.cz; s=netart; t=1562879376; bh=0rgFdMVAqTmREK7whn4rpY4iIZIXTCg8BxuoHTKoZcc=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=uJ0S6hJdvxtnbWF3dvXdo2ajUBLGgusds7AYUZI/+cNqubm7UuB+Uuv8qBZfjwz3D TsB9SnDtobhLkMsb0sd9DaHSRmyoI3k+zr+e6N9fZlGOW6Y50SN7izIeCbh+rLgfMh ysEqhiIhQQL+pAdwD7skV88po3nal8ppK7LEZfoar/UxVWlPp57kT3DMMfSVgRKI+S uUlriATTBH+X9wxiYe0RiUGYATs5jnvvG4bh/pjCalbfa2SX5BYhJr4HnIsLkuUiKA u2IogLilGUjexcPwZHkNQXSMo5gAFEXBuud4m53bf8vRKg4TkqPUx1hXxsiI4aKAy2 vJ2C/xbt+41+w== X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on zebra.dc.rinet.ru X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=10.0 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 Reported 0 times. [5 zebra.net-art.cz., 1000 coolmx.net-art.cz.] [188.130.248.80] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from owl.net-art.cz (surikat.net-art.cz [185.82.212.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "owl.net-art.cz", Issuer "owl.net-art.cz" (verified OK)) by zebra.net-art.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79ED332E5C; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:09:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [2001:1a48:6:10:ac77:5168:8745:8a46] (account samm@net-art.cz HELO Administrators-MacBook-Pro.local) by owl.net-art.cz (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.20) with ESMTPSA id 164943; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:09:34 +0200 Subject: Re: Few of my articles about FreeBSD on ARM To: Kyle Evans Cc: Ian Lepore , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" References: <94eaa9c9-f826-b039-30c5-9161d163131a@net-art.cz> From: Alex Samorukov Message-ID: <3e7273c4-a11f-af63-771b-91b46c39f7a2@net-art.cz> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:09:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.101.1/25507/Thu Jul 11 10:05:54 2019 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:09:42 -0000 On 11/07/2019 21:11, Kyle Evans wrote: > Looks interesting, but seems to be abandoned long time ago. There is >> also toybox, which is a busybox-like but with a better license. Busybox >> seems to be most active and commonly used in the Linux/embedded >> projects, thats why i started with it. I will try to submit my patches >> to upstream after finishing them. >> > May I ask what gives you this impression? bsdbox is actively used in > freebsd-wifi-build by myself and at least a couple of others. It > doesn't see a whole lot of active commits because unlike with Busybox, > it's a crunch setup much like rescue -- there's not a whole lot to > bsdbox specifically other than adding another PROG from base to build > in. There are some programs that would be nice to have, but they just > haven't been added yet for one reason or the other- most likely being > that they just don't get used much in the limited environments that > it's currently used in. Thank you for clarification. My [wrong] impression was caused by commit history. I will take a look on it one more time.