Sorry, I mixed up the posts. This is in fact not exclusive to the lite image.
I guess we need two categories. "Usable and usefull" and "needed in lite image" Not a single unneeded module shall be in lite, and all usable and usefull shall be available as individual packages. What do you think? Tilman Baumann wrote: > > Tom wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Steven ** >> <[email protected]<montgoss%[email protected]> >>> wrote: >> >>> As long as they are easy to install after the fact and it's obvious >>> when something isn't working because of a missing module, I'd be fine >>> with removing all modules that aren't needed for core/basic >>> functionality. >>> >>> -Steven >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Tom<[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hey everyone, >>> > We (many people) discussed on IRC about reducing SHR fat from the >>> lite >>> > image, we found many heavy and useless packages installed by default >>> and >>> of >>> > course dropped them (a very obvious example: tcpdump). >>> > After that, we decided to attack the kernel modules mess (as >>> suggested >>> in >>> a >>> > ticket in our trac iirc), I attached (and also linked to the wiki >>> page) a >>> > list of kernel modules installed in shr by default, >>> > please tell us what you think (i.e which to remove). Play try to >>> avoid >>> > echoing (i.e writing I agree with X) as it'll just make our work >>> harder >>> :) >>> > >>> > I actually think a wiki page is most suitable for this kind of work, >>> so I >>> > also created a wiki page, please consider editing that instead of >>> replying >>> > here! >>> > >>> > wiki: http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Kernel%20Modules >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Tom. >>> > >>> > >> >> I disagree! The phone should be able to provide cool (though basic) >> funcutunality like being able to read a usb stick! >> If that's what you meant, (i.e keep those) that's where we are heading, >> though I opened this wiki page to help us mark what's >> important and what's not. > > May I remind you that this is not done to merely safe space where it is > not important. There is a good reason for this diet. > GTA01 has only 64MB Flash! The lite image barely fits on that device. > Every byte saved makes this device usable again! > Currently there is not even enough space to install the GPS driver, which > can not be shipped with the distro. (gllin) > > Cool stuff is really not my concern here. It's about making it usable at > all. > > We are talking about the lite image. There is no reason to make it > needlessly fat. Everything can be installed via opkg and there is always > the fat image for people like you. > > -- > MFG > Tilman Baumann > > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user > -- MFG Tilman Baumann _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
