From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [206.46.173.19] (helo=vms173019pub.verizon.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M0TZy-0004dh-HS for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 06:45:30 +0200 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([71.251.49.215]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KJ10054RWY6ANQB@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 23:39:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 24EF46B804A; Sun, 03 May 2009 00:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 00:39:42 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20090503043941.GA10690@denix.org> References: <49FAE94F.2090101@doredevelopment.dk> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <49FAE94F.2090101@doredevelopment.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Pull request from Dor?Development - New: Micro distro/image X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 04:45:30 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Martin Lund wrote: > The "Micro" distribution/image is created because we feel that there is a > need for a truly tiny and clean distro and image definition in OE for those > users out there that needs a _very_ tiny Linux rootfs with virtually > nothing installed except busybox, libc, udev, and a few init scripts. On > arm the jffs2 image size is only 1 MB (uclibc based). No bloat allowed. > > The micro-image is ideal for users who wants this type of tiny Linux rootfs > system with only a few custom applications added. Hmm, about 7 years ago I was working on a project of a Linux-based DSL router, which had a filesystem of about 1 MB in size with all the possible networking apps plus some custom management, control and diagnostic apps... It was also busybox and uclibc based, but was squash+lzma to squeeze every bit out of it. And back then busybox didn't have all the networking tools integrated yet, as it has these days... -- Denys