From owner-freebsd-small Wed Sep 23 09:45:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27646 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27604 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (Stealth/Bomber) with SMTP id MAA22384; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:44:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD going ELF & other news. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Big pat on the back for Andrzej :-) I'll try and do some testing... -marc On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > This is just to let you know that I've committed (hopefully) all necessary > changes to build picobsd userland in ELF format. I checked that it builds > ok and the floppies are working. The kernel is still a.out till the issues > with the new bootloader clear up. > > If you could spare an hour or two to check if they work for you, I'd be > grateful to hear a report from you. > > Other news: > > * TinyWare collection includes now one more utility, named > 'msg', which is a sysctl-based equivalent of normal 'dmesg' > > * There is optional support for recently added bridging and bandwidth > limiting. Now you can build yourself not only a firewall, but also a > bridge and traffic shaper - very neat! :-). In order to use these > features you need to uncomment appropriate options in kernel config > file. Our tiny netstat (ns) has been modified to display bridging > statistics. > > * "net" and "isp" floppies now use UCD-SNMP v. 3.5 > > * This is a bad news: we had to stop using DEVFS because currently it's > broken. This is sad because now again we have to create all necessary > device nodes in /dev manually, and they take a lot of space... :-(( > > * But the good news is that ELF binaries take less space compressed, so > in fact we have slightly more space on the floppy (but less space on > the MFS - uncompressed ELF binaries are a tiny fraction bigger, plus > the space for all /dev/* nodes). > > That's more or less all for now... > > Andrzej Bialecki > > -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: > Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" > Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Host your business website for only $29/month! 1.877.GO.HIPPO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message