Quoting "Gertjan Hofman" <[email protected]>:
However...my limited experience with embedded systems sees the size of flash chip grow so rapidly that its hard to get anything under 256MB at a reasonable price, which set us off a path of seeing whether we could avoid the various embedded build projects (OpenEmbedded, Buildroot etc) and use reliable, standard Debian. We can - I can build a minimal RFS in 20 MB (JFFS2).
Gertjan, this is exactly why we use Emdebian Grip in my company. It actually *is* standard Debian, just smaller. Currently we use Emdebian Grip *plus* a dumb scripts that remove more stuff, but I hope, that this script will shrink with the Emdebian progress.
With respect to updating packages, this is unlikely to be a problem on real commercial devices - I can't see releasing a device to a customer that has the ability to apt-get
Same for my project. We use Emdebian to build the RFS and to have a nice development platform (incl. apt-get), but we will probably remove apt-get etc. from the final product. If customers ask for it, we still can provide them with a developers RFS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
