On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, C. <codest...@osunix.org> wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris enough so that it
>>> could fit into 8MB of flash or would that require spinning of an embedded
>>> version which makes a lot of compromises?
>>>
>>
>> You might have a look at MilaX and BeleniX.
>> But 8MB??? Forget about it.
>>
>
> Not true.. Milax I think can get down to 24M and still has a lot of kernel
> modules/drivers which could be parsed out.  There's also the fact that milax
> still probably contains binaries for 32/64 bit.. maybe headers and worst
> case we could resort to binary stripping and or change compiler flags to
> optimize for space.  Someone of course correct me if I'm wrong.. This is of
> course not at all to imply that it can be done tomorrow or very easy.  Just
> that there's still room for more size reductions.  Anyone daring/crazy
> enough that wants to work on it feel free to ping me.


#0) !(!(24 >= 8))
#1) I pointed him to MilaX and Moinak-compressed (Moinak-modified-)
MilaX myself.
#2) Not true, 32-bit, no 64-bit kernel inside microroot due to space
reasons, in the version that I am talking about.
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