Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:08:04 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does one minimize the base environment plus Xorg for lowend machines? Message-ID: <0C52F832-ACAF-4A4D-BCCD-C34C83412BDE@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=wEUYfhgWZVfuVsQfbrsg%2BtgsZ948tNdx=GDtx@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin6Wq2MHyigDPoXxfkQmYZcb=84eqoKtd1OoJuR@mail.gmail.com> <55213959-1A94-4F25-86CB-E502C61E3C6C@gmail.com> <AANLkTi=wEUYfhgWZVfuVsQfbrsg%2BtgsZ948tNdx=GDtx@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Super Bisquit wrote: > I haven't done both parts of the next question in a while. Would I > do the make buildworld and make buildkernel with an output directory > similar to the same command used in jails and, does it need to be > native cpu platform or can it be built on same processor class: i.e > G3 or can a G4 be used instead? > > > Many thanks for the suggestion. As long as you don't specify a CPUTYPE, or specify the compatible CPUTYPE in src.conf/make.conf, you should be fine. > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Justin Hibbits > <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > > The G3 B&W has been volunteered as part of an effort to use a > Lombard- The > laptop has the same cpu- as a device for the visually impaired. I'm > currently running a build of orca and attempting to lessen the build > by > removing unnecessary build options. > The release is the 9.0-CURRENT recently announced on the mailing list. > The attempt of porting emacspeak to the machine failed when using an > old > port on a OpenBSD install. NetBSD was difficult to boot due to not > knowing > the proper boot commands. (If someone knows how to do this or can > show me > what I did wrong, I'll be glad to read.) > Tiny BSD seems to be optimized for i386 processors. Can this be used > on a > Lombard or a B&W with Xorg and the r128 driver? > One of the light "Box" desktop environments can be used or the cwm > from > OpenBSD and orca setup to run along with it. > > Take a look at src.conf(5). I read through that then went crazy > with the WITHOUT_* options in my /etc/src.conf, to disable as much > as I could for my G4 MDD. > > - Justin > - Justin
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