Re: Smallest/fastest x86 6.0
Warner Losh <[email protected]>
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> Can anyone give me a ballpark idea on what size the smallest > image would be, and how fast it could boot, for a 6.0 (or 6.1) > bare bones x86 kernel with a serial driver, filesystem (suitable > for a 32MB flash device; even a DOS filesystem is fine) and > enough guts to load a "hello world"-sized C program, on a 500 > MHz PIII class of machine? I'm hoping for something along the > lines of 2-4MB and <10s ... I've scaled FreeBSD booting to a multi-user prompt down to about a 8MB system. FreeBSD booting a custom application should be doable in the 2MB range. FreeBSD on a soekris can boot in < 10s to login prompt using the standard rc files, with the 'unused' ones removed. It took about 3s to get to the start of rc on the soekris box. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"