From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 15 0:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from leka.almamedia.fi (leka.yhteys.mtv3.fi [62.236.224.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 128E037B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jml@cubical.fi) Received: (qmail 15556 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 08:15:33 -0000 Received: from dyn-c-042.yhteys.mtv3.fi (HELO snafu.intra.net) (@62.236.227.42) by leka.yhteys.mtv3.fi with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 08:15:33 -0000 Received: from cubical.fi (huilu.intra.net [192.168.2.2]) by snafu.intra.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2F8FM002422; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:15:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from jml@cubical.fi) Message-ID: <3AB07A5F.B6A19F76@cubical.fi> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:16:31 +0200 From: Juha-Matti Liukkonen Organization: Cubical Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: functional differences between variants References: <200103150119.SAA09475@freeway.dcfinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, talking of squeezing bits, bzip2 can stuff the kernel and filesystem images into quite a bit smaller space than gzip, giving maybe an extra 200 KB on the floppy. I don't think it would be too difficult to make /boot/loader to support kernel.bz2 as well; libbz2.a comes with the bzip2 port and is quite simple to use. - Juha "Chad R. Larson" wrote: > > As I recall, Doug Young wrote: > > Also, is there a reason why picoBSD development still appears to be > > concentrated on older versions of FreeBSD instead of something in the > > 4.x line ?? > > The kernel in the 4.x line is considerably larger than 2.2.x or > 3.5.x, and has some features (like improved SMP support) that is of > little use for Pico systems. When you're trying to smoosh stuff > down to fit on a floppy, every little bit (byte?) counts. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com > 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 -- Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Cubical Solutions Ltd Phone: +358(0)405280142 Email: jml@cubical.fi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message