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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2006 18:30:50 -0700
From:      "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au>
Cc:        minibsd@ultradesic.com, freebsd-small@freebsd.org, mk@neon1.net
Subject:   Re: Embedded FreeBSD Presentation...
Message-ID:  <m2iro6eoxh.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F117CA31@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
References:  <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F117CA31@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>

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At Mon, 15 May 2006 10:27:00 +1000,
Murray Taylor wrote:
> 
> George, Jim et al,
> 
> Have you looked at the miniBSD build system
> described below?  

I have not, but it adds yet another to our list :-)

> I didnt do the original work, I just use it, and it is a blast.
> Particularly useful is keeping a dnode mounted disk image of the CF
> on the development host. Dead easy to copy new programs to the vnode
> mount, unmount it, dd a new CF image, and run. Also by temporarily
> mounting the miniBSD boot partition as R/W, one can do a SCP copy of
> a file to the CF disk from the development host over the WAN ....
> 

It would be nice to start consolodating some of this work, and even
better if it could be generically added to the vanilla build system.

Later
George



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