Re: Roadblocks to further widespread adoption of NetBSD in embedded systems (at least in my neck of the woods)

On 03/26/2010 09:59 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jack Atkinson wrote:
>> 4. Ability to build a small kernel with small subset of userland 
>> utilities much like BusyBox on Linux, but not GPL.
>
> This can be done in various ways (have miniroot filesystem inside 
> kernel, load miniroot as kernel module, etc.), but there's ~no 
> documentation.
> Maybe have a look at the g4u project for an example implementation:
> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
A few years ago I wrote a howto about making a custom compact flash 
image including inserting miniroot file system inside kernel: 
http://www.yazzy.org/docs/NetBSD/netbsd-on-cf.txt