From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jul 8 11:48: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B64D37B8C1 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13038; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:47:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200007081847.LAA13038@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Optimise for space -Os In-Reply-To: <396728B0.83C5A7F0@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jul 8, 0 10:12:16 pm" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:47:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: abial@webgiro.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. Would it be heresy to suggest that perhaps the base for PicoBSD might want to be 2.2-STABLE? Or perhaps 3.5-STABLE? It seems this thread is spending a lot of time pondering ways around bloat. Put another way, what features have been added to FreeBSD that the PicoBSDers need? Might it be easier to back port them to an earlier release rather than to disable/remove the features not needed from a current release?? Just food for thought... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message