From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jan 25 13:25:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E29115603 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA42290; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:54:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:54:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bob Bishop Cc: Timo Rossi , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New approach to picobsd Message-ID: <20000126075445.B42227@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi>; <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi> <20000125103358.U2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 7:40:19 +0000, Bob Bishop wrote: > At 10:33 +0800 25/1/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >> [...] >> Unfortunately, the current PicoBSD system is oriented towards >> floppies. This has the great disadvantage, at least in the current >> implementation, that each crunched executable repeats the library >> contents. For a flash memory system it would make more sense to have >> a single executable... > > Um, that's what the current PicoBSD system does? Is this a question or a statement? In any case, for the multiple disk configuration the answer is "no". There's one crunched executable per disk, and that involves repetition. >> ...which might be larger than a single floppy. Currently that's not the way it's done. It might be an option, and I suppose somebody should explore it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message