Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 8/1/11, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Subject: Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52] To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 3:23 PM

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On 2 August 2011 15:35, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm sure I can jump some more ropes to make the case on a fresh os1 vs a fresh os874, but I do not see any reason. The reason is that df is known to not produce good results on jffs2 nor on ubifs (but ubifs is supposedely

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
The reason is that df is known to not produce good results on jffs2 nor on ubifs (but ubifs is supposedely much more truthful). I do not know why you say that when the data show otherwise. (and although I can not find the post right now, I remember that James Cameron came on a similar

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On 2 August 2011 17:10, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: I do not know why you say that when the data show otherwise. You haven't provided data for the requested test. Maybe you could investigate yourself in a way that you find more reliable. 100MB is considerable space for

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 July 2011 21:08, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: For what is worths, with the increasing size of the builds I had posted [1] a crude script I was using to remove dri, firmware, extra locales and 256x256 ions (61Mb worth on os874) which people used, and I did not hear

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: That's not to say there isn't an issue here (there may well be), but you need to prove this with a test that looks at the quantity of data that can be stored. Yioryos, du -shx / before and after will give you uncompressed

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-01 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 8/1/11, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Subject: Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52] To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 10:25 AM

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On 1 August 2011 20:10, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: My original report was based on the `df' data. To test how accurate these might be I did the following: To save me the effort of trying to understood exactly what you did, could you just state how much data from

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 52]

2011-07-28 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org To: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Removing linux-firmware from the build Hi, linux-firmware, the package that puts lots of stuff in /lib/firmware, is growing and growing and is mostly irrelevant for us, including firmware for (e.g.) SCSI