On Wed Jul 25, 2001 at 06:00:59PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:26:47AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > If you find stuff that is enabled that shouldn't be, please do let me/us know > > by posting to the list. I'm about to make a new busybox package in the next > > hour or two, so now would be a good time to mention any needed changes. Of > > course, there are many new releases where this one came from if you find things > > later on... > > Well, I hope that this might save some precious space on the disk: > could you enable all the module-stuff (insmod, modprobe, ...)? On The busybox module stuff is platform specific, and only right now, busybox insmod only supports x86, ARM, SH3/4, powerpc, m68k, and MIPS. And so if I enable it I will get unkind emails from the autobuilders on alpha, sparc, ia64 and all other unsupported platforms... > Alpha the real binaries eat about 130k and the busybox-binary 282k. If > there are no problems, "route" may also be activated, even if it is > only 87k in size, but remember that we need ~200k extra-space > (compressed!) on the rootdisk to get everything squeezed on a > 1.4M-floppy. > > How is the shell-part of busybox? Is it useable and compatible enough > to run all the shellscripts needed for the boot-process? I just ask > because ash has annother 150k :) Busybox's ash is quite small -- it adds about 70k (with command line editing and history enabled). The only thing it lacks (soon to be remedied) is posix math support. > Well, I don't know if putting all of this in busybox will actually > save that much space but IMHO it is worth looking into it (if it > works). I'm on vacation (back late Saturday) and I'll look into things then, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: andersee@debian.org, andersen@lineo.com --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
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