On 21 Jan 2011, at 15:42, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011, Jamie Bennett wrote: >> Currently we are reassessing whether or not the Headless image meets >> the requirements for a small, fast, useable image for board >> verification. Just for information the current stats as of 2011-01-21 >> are: >> >> * Download Size: 64M >> * Download size with OMAP3 hwpack: 100M >> * Package count: 260 >> >> The list of package currently on the image can be found at: >> >> https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/Specs/HeadlessImage#Package List >> >> The current thoughts are to cut this image down as much as possible >> whilst still retaining the ability to boot to a command prompt. The >> new image would be a 'nano' image and would be useful for verifying >> that the hardware boots. For a more complete console-only image for >> developers a full-featured developer image would be created. See my >> other email entitled "Call for opinion: Linaro 'Developer' Image" >> for that. >> >> Is anyone *really* against this idea and is satisfied with the >> Headless image in its current state? Opinions? Thoughts? Criticisms? > > Could we do with an initrd instead of an image? I mean, busybox + > small set of tools is probably enough for validation, and will be quite > small. > > There is inherent bloat as soon as we add a package manager in the mix
Right, current thoughts after some IRC discussion are: * busybox * no package manager * max size of 30mb (without kernel) * some further removal of packages I think with this in place you will get a ~30mb compress rootfs, we could even go further if necessary. > Loïc Minier Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
