> root/boot currently include setterm? If not, I'm sure that
> one could dig up the appropriate escape sequences for most of
> what setterm does and code them into a lua script. (I don't
Setterm stuff is easy because indeed you can just use the escape
sequences. More problematic is stty. I will probably remove stty
at some point, because it is huge relative to what it does. The
only 2 places I cared were in the reset/clear which are now busybox
binaries, and to turn the echo off for the login password prompt.
Does anyone care if I just remove stty and add the echo on/off
ability to something else (either busybox or lua)?
> Regarding kernel bloat and compiling smaller kernels. bzip2 support
> helps quite a bit. However, I don't see quite the bloat that
> Tom talks about. Here's my /boot/vmli* (with the leading ls -l
The exact same options from 2.0.39 to 2.2.19 goes from 506269 to 624248,
*without* even counting size increase to the scsi drivers that I have as
modules. It is probably true that *just* the kernel hasn't bloated so
much, but the modules are all getting big big bigger. As an example, the
aic7xxx.o file has gone from 108876 to 136420. Enough of this and
tomsrtbt will go back to 1.2... You said, 'bzip2 support helps quite a
bit'... _is_ there already such a patch? I was expecting to have to do it
myself...
I am planning to add 2.2.19, glibc-2.2.3, and X support, I just havn't
worked out all the details yet... I suppose you can expect to lose stty,
ramtest, ntfs, and some other things...
-Tom
