Re: [RFC] what do we do with picobsd ?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:04:08 -0800
Dario Freni wrote:

>Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto:
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>>In message <20060131.131654.134137067.imp_at_bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
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>>>In message: <43DFC2D5.7040706_at_errno.com>
>>>           Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> writes:
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>>>Since I've started working on the bring up on an ARM based board, I've
>>>been wanting something that is easy to work with and that worked.  I
>>>think it would help us a lot in the embedded space if we had something
>>>integrated into the base OS to do this stuff.
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>>I agree.  I think we need to be much more inclusive in our concept of
>>a 'release' than we are now.
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>>As I see it, PicoBSD with its "additive" approach would cover the
>>low-capacity (<32 MB ?) range, NanoBSD with its "subtractive" approach
>>takes over from there, FreeSBIE covers the "don't touch my disk"
>>range and finally the full blown release as we know it.
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>Actually, FreeSBIE 2 toolkit covers both approaches. It is successfully
>used in embedded enviroments. pfSense (www.pfsense.com) use it either
>for creating an install livecd as well as embedded images for
>soekris-like machines. It can perfectly act as NanoBSD (the only
>difference is the partitioning scheme which is trivial to reproduce by
>customizing FreeSBIE's image script).
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>Nobody of you mind importing the toolkit in the source tree? :)
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on the contrary i thin it should be there.. *somewhere*.
the question is, "where?"


I thought that's why you have access?
Received on Wed Feb 01 2006 - 21:04:14 UTC

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