[Angstrom-devel] [RFC] update release images with 2007.12-rX

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:54:16 +0100
Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded at haerwu.biz> wrote:

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> > | Personally I would go into 1st way if we are able to get working
> > | system in ~400-500KB of initramfs (minimal Zaurus kernel for c7x0
> > was | ~700KB). 
> 
> > We would need only busybox and kexec-tools[1] in there, right?
> > [1] does busybox have a kexec applet already?
> 
> Paul methods can be used - I did not checked what he use as my c760
> is rather developer tool for use from time to time then each day use
> PDA.

IMHO, most promising way should be using klibc-linked utils (including
its ash). Thomas Kunze works on that. I of course may imagine that will
require patching for real-world usability (timeout for 'read' for
example). But again, that should be more promising way than plucking
busybox.

Current numbers for initramfs-bootmenu-image:

820138 Angstrom-initramfs-bootmenu-image-uclibc-ipk-2007.12-r4-hx4700.rootfs.cpio.gz

When bundled with the biggest linux-hh zImage (hx4700's due to pcmcia
builtin): just dozen Kbs less than 2Mb which is pure luck as that's
size of hx4700 kernel partition ;-).

Inside: ~850Kb busybox, ~300k - NFS kernel modules.


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