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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: MFLD <mfld.fr@gmail.com>
Cc: ELKS <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up elkscmd and adding help text - Questions
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:19:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150327221912.60093649@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5515A6EF.4060002@gmail.com>

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:52:31 +0100
MFLD <mfld.fr@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not suggesting to build Linux on 8086, I do know it won't fit 
> (protected mode...) and this is why I came to ELKS!
> 
> This is also why I cannot reuse coreboot for my project and I started to 
> write a kind of boot86 / mon86.
> 
> I only suggested to try to build Busybox with dev86, and using the libc 
> from dev86 for the glue between Busybox code and ELKS.
> 
> Was it tried before ?

Busybox is in relative terms huge - even some of the busybox utilities
split standalone are oversized compared with other implementations.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-27 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27  8:19 Cleaning up elkscmd and adding help text - Questions Nils Stec
2015-03-27 13:19 ` Jody Bruchon
2015-03-27 14:10   ` Alan Cox
2015-03-27 16:17     ` Jody Bruchon
2015-03-27 18:19       ` MFLD
2015-03-27 18:26         ` Jody Bruchon
2015-03-27 18:52           ` MFLD
2015-03-27 22:19             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2015-03-28 15:35               ` LM
2015-03-27 18:41         ` Alan Cox
2015-03-27 17:59   ` Nils Stec
2015-03-27 18:31     ` Alan Cox
2015-03-27 13:54 ` Alan Cox

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