Andrew at 10.06.2010 22:19, Andrew wrote: > 10.06.2010 18:46, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: >> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010 16:44:05 schrieb Andrew: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I rebuild package tree forom scratch, also update dosfstools (it wasn't >>> too hard - so it'll be in distro until I'll have time to split busybox >>> into separate executables and modify packages for this), it seems that >>> all important packages are OK - at least, they are built OK. >>> >>> IMHO it'll be good to assemble all in .iso, and place it as, for ex., >>> beta-0 release... >>> >>> Also, question about kernel features that currently are disabled >>> (support of swap, pcmcia, iscsi) is still actual - are they needed? >>> >> Andrew; >> >> AFAIK icsi was supported in Bering-uClibc 3 for building NAS boxes based on >> LEAF. I doubt it's widely used, but why shall we remove it, if it works? >> >> PCMCIA might be an option as well, cause it allows using old laptops with >> pcmcia cards to be used as small router... >> >> Swap dooesn't make much sense to me, but maybe someone corrects me here. >> >> kp >> > Ok, I'll enable PCMCIA + iSCSI in kernel config and try to rebuild all > tonight, IMHO - it'll good to make it as modules. > > I disabled it in my (alpha?) build for internal use, because it was > unuseful for me. Possible, it'll require to update pcmcia and iscsi > packages in tree. > > About swap - LEAF now use less than 64 MB RAM (on my test box with > OSPF/SNMP/PPTP/PPPoE - ~55 MB for code + tmpfs and ~18MB cache, totally > ~73MB)
Is this really the smallest footprint we can achieve with a 2.6 kernel? It somehow feels huge to me. WRAP boxes typically came with 64MB and this cannot be just raised by adding memory. cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
