From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id A51D2E00D9A; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:40:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, high * trust * [198.47.26.153 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from devils.ext.ti.com (devils.ext.ti.com [198.47.26.153]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A3BE00B5C for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlelxv90.itg.ti.com ([172.17.2.17]) by devils.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id t8FFd9uF013442; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:39:09 -0500 Received: from DFLE73.ent.ti.com (dfle73.ent.ti.com [128.247.5.110]) by dlelxv90.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8FFd9jO006002; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:39:09 -0500 Received: from dflp32.itg.ti.com (10.64.6.15) by DFLE73.ent.ti.com (128.247.5.110) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:39:09 -0500 Received: from [137.167.41.114] (ileax41-snat.itg.ti.com [10.172.224.153]) by dflp32.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8FFd7DW001531; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:39:08 -0500 Message-ID: <55F83B9D.3020002@ti.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:39:09 -0400 From: William Mills User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trevor Woerner , "Paul D. DeRocco" , References: <55F82F8A.0@gmail.com> <55F830DF.5030804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55F830DF.5030804@gmail.com> Subject: Re: I hate busybox! X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:40:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/15/2015 10:53 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On 09/15/15 10:47, Trevor Woerner wrote: >> The only place busybox (and >> toybox) are needed today are in the MMU-less-type systems, such as >> Cortex-Ms etc. > > Actually, the presence or lack of MMU is irrelevant, I meant to single > out those systems with limited on-SoC flash. > OE-core is capable of building a system that has no GPLv3. This capability is still important to some users and busybox is needed for that as I understand. (Other users want the capability to build a system w/o proprietary code. OE serves both needs.)