Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:29:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Krten <root@parse.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Smallest/fastest x86 6.0 Message-ID: <200605161629.k4GGTPfN065519@amd64.ott.parse.com>
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Can anyone give me a ballpark idea on what size the smallest image would be, and how fast it could boot, for a 6.0 (or 6.1) bare bones x86 kernel with a serial driver, filesystem (suitable for a 32MB flash device; even a DOS filesystem is fine) and enough guts to load a "hello world"-sized C program, on a 500 MHz PIII class of machine? I'm hoping for something along the lines of 2-4MB and <10s ... I know it's kind of a vague question, but I'm trying to get a handle on just how "embeddable" FreeBSD is. PHK gave a talk at BSDCan 2006 last weekend, and I believe the number he guessed at was around 9MB but that was using nanoBSD; he then went on to say that picoBSD would be the way to go, but that perhaps there needed to be some more development on that front... Comments? Thanks in advance, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
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