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

Julian Elischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.small
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dario Freni wrote:

>Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto:
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>
>>In message <[email protected]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
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>>
>>>In message: <[email protected]>
>>>           Sam Leffler <[email protected]> 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.
>>>      
>>>
>>I agree.  I think we need to be much more inclusive in our concept of
>>a 'release' than we are now.
>>
>>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).
>
>Nobody of you mind importing the toolkit in the source tree? :)
>  
>

on the contrary i thin it should be there.. *somewhere*.
the question is, "where?"


I thought that's why you have access?

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