From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jul 8 6:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB9837C026 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 06:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p03-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.68]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id WAA24226; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 22:35:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <396728B0.83C5A7F0@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:12:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Doug White , Roger Hardiman , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimise for space -Os References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 _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." jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? EE: OK, I made that part up. 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