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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:33:36 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New microdrives from IBM
Message-ID:  <771898F0E7A.AAA104E@smtp02.wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071925400.21617-100000@korin.warman.org .pl>
References:  <19981007100029.30754@amber.org>

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At 19:31 07-10-98 , Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:
>
>> BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for
>> reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find
>> anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support
>> up to 72MB of FlashDisk.  While I understand the need to conservce
>> space---if not the need to spell correctly <wink>---I think that it is
>> important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we
>> can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making
>> sure it fits in all forms.
>
>This touches one very important issue: currently used way to build the
>target picobsd system is as inflexible and inconvenient as it could ever
>get.. :-( We need _some_ way of making it more modular, and easier to
>modify, without requiring a total recompile each time... Any ideas are
>welcome (about half a year ago I tried to create a picobsd version which
>used separate binaries and shared libs... and failed miserably - the whole
>thing was much bigger and consumed much more memory...).

That's what I have been nagging about in my last few posts =)

We need to 'develop'/establish a method of modular building under the
FreeBSD box we have at out disposal. I am going to need to switch to my
FreeBSD partition for all my work instead of this NT partition. Hard to
switch from one system to another completely ;)

I shall try to put something on paper tomorrow about how to achieve the
goal in my eyes and will then mail it to the group.


Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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