From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (mail.free-electrons.com [88.190.12.23]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C9BE013EB for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix, from userid 106) id AB16A16D; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:05:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.free-electrons.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_20 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from skate (humanoidz.org [82.247.183.72]) by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD935148; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:05:35 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Tomas Frydrych Message-ID: <20120615090535.3516e5a5@skate> In-Reply-To: <4FDAD6D1.4050605@r-finger.com> References: <4FD93175.7070202@linux.intel.com> <4FD98EA6.1050403@r-finger.com> <4FDA530E.3090508@linux.intel.com> <4FDAD6D1.4050605@r-finger.com> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: RFC: poky-tiny: init procedure X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:05:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:31:45 +0100, Tomas Frydrych a =C3=A9crit : > Hi Darren, >=20 > On 14/06/12 22:09, Darren Hart wrote: > > This solution improves the kick-the-tires > > experience with poky-tiny, without pulling in all of init,=20 >=20 > I think you really should quantify what 'all of init' means, without > this you are addressing a problem that is merely perceived. Just a > quick look shows that the sysvinit package is about 120KB unpacked, > for that you get a solution that is tested, robust, and supported > across Yocto. FWIW, Busybox comes with its own implementation of a very simple and basic init, which only takes a few KB of space inside the Busybox binary. That's what we use by default in Buildroot, and it works just fine. It's a really good trade-off between no init at all, and a full-blown sysvinit system. Best regards, Thomas --=20 Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com