Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:12:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimise for space -Os Message-ID: <396728B0.83C5A7F0@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007012241080.48866-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > I think it's fine for the truly embedded setups, which run on well-defined > hardware - they can use monolithic image. For installation floppies, or > portable dial-up tool, in my opinion it's better to still use the loader, > but without Forth, and instead of monolithic kernel build a pretty minimal > one + additional floppy/tarball with modules. Userconfig will be a loader program in the future, so installation floppies need the full deal. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org <jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." <EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? <jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up. <jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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