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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:04:08 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org, rizzo@icir.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, rwatson@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] what do we do with picobsd ?
Message-ID:  <43E13058.7020708@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <43E127A5.9060503@freesbie.org>
References:  <3281.1138742578@critter.freebsd.dk> <43E127A5.9060503@freesbie.org>

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Dario Freni wrote:

>Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto:
>  
>
>>In message <20060131.131654.134137067.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>>    
>>
>>>In message: <43DFC2D5.7040706@errno.com>
>>>           Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> writes:
>>>      
>>>
>>>Since I've started working on the bring up on an ARM based board, I've
>>>been wanting something that is easy to work with and that worked.  I
>>>think it would help us a lot in the embedded space if we had something
>>>integrated into the base OS to do this stuff.
>>>      
>>>
>>I agree.  I think we need to be much more inclusive in our concept of
>>a 'release' than we are now.
>>
>>As I see it, PicoBSD with its "additive" approach would cover the
>>low-capacity (<32 MB ?) range, NanoBSD with its "subtractive" approach
>>takes over from there, FreeSBIE covers the "don't touch my disk"
>>range and finally the full blown release as we know it.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Actually, FreeSBIE 2 toolkit covers both approaches. It is successfully
>used in embedded enviroments. pfSense (www.pfsense.com) use it either
>for creating an install livecd as well as embedded images for
>soekris-like machines. It can perfectly act as NanoBSD (the only
>difference is the partitioning scheme which is trivial to reproduce by
>customizing FreeSBIE's image script).
>
>Nobody of you mind importing the toolkit in the source tree? :)
>  
>

on the contrary i thin it should be there.. *somewhere*.
the question is, "where?"


I thought that's why you have access?




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