Re: Cleaning up elkscmd and adding help text - Questions

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:52:31 +0100
MFLD <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not suggesting to build Linux on 8086, I do know it won't fit 
> (protected mode...) and this is why I came to ELKS!
> 
> This is also why I cannot reuse coreboot for my project and I started to 
> write a kind of boot86 / mon86.
> 
> I only suggested to try to build Busybox with dev86, and using the libc 
> from dev86 for the glue between Busybox code and ELKS.
> 
> Was it tried before ?

Busybox is in relative terms huge - even some of the busybox utilities
split standalone are oversized compared with other implementations.

Alan