Norman,
On 2017-02-15 00:19, Norman Feske wrote: > Hi Philip, > > thanks for your interest in Genode and welcome to the list! Thanks for the welcome! I think it will be a very interesting investigation for me - I have been thinking about micro-kernels for a while . . > It may be a coincidence but I recently added a note about the SAFE > network to our "Challenges" page: > > https://genode.org/about/challenges > > Really cool to see that the interest may be even mutual! SAFE and Genode could be a beautiful and very timely marriage . . >> First question - from searching the archives I can't see any info on >> one >> of things I am interested in - what is the smallest bootable OS that >> can >> be set up with Genode? - could it be small enough to fit on a floppy >> disk? > > It ultimately depends on the system scenario. > > E.g., for a very simple scenario (log.run) on NOVA, the build system > generates an ISO image of 3 MiB, which contains the NOVA hypervisor, > Genode's core and init components, the dynamic linker, and a simple > "hello-world" component. The content on the ISO is not packed though. > In > principle, GRUB supports gzip'ed boot modules. If this feature was > used, > the image would shrink to about 800 KiB. (I just gzipped the ISO to get > a rough estimate) Pretty impressive! > For an interactive scenario, you may take os/run/demo.run as reference. > It contains several drivers (VESA, PS/2, timer), the nitpicker GUI > server, and a few interactive example applications. The ISO is 8 MiB > (gzip'ed to 3 MiB) whereas a third of the size can be attributed to a > single demo application (scout). > > In short, you can squeeze a Genode-based system on a floppy. But such a > system would be rather boring. ;-) I know this exercise would not be of prime interest for the Genode development but I am thinking of emergency boot disk(s) for old hardware (no CD or USB) and it might be a convenient investigation for me to start exploring Genode - would it be possible to daisy-chain a number of floppies to boot? Regards, Phil. > Cheers > Norman > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske > Genode Labs > > http://www.genode-labs.com · http://genode.org > > Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden > Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > genode-main mailing list > genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
