On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote: > Hello all ? :) > > Sorry, I was not subscribed to this list for over a year. > I am familiar with the repos, but didn't read any meeting minutes or > the huge mail archives. > > Can somebody please clarify what has been the reason to not produce > any bootable LiveCD for SPARC, but to go the AI way exclusively? > > There is a simple way to reduce the boot_archive/miniroot/microroot > size significantly, also on SPARC with its RISC-caused bigger file > footprint, the need to have sun4u and sun4v kernels inside (although > this could be separated) and misc. other platform related reasons > (like you have so many different platform subdirs on SPARC, not only > full of symlinks but also containing fat space-robbing files. > > Then of course limited Xorg driver ?support and problems with a pretty > buggy and incomplete libpciaccess. > But the is a simple way to build a high-performance and small > memory-footprint LiveCD on SPARC, beyond dcfs, gzip and Moinak's > latest efforts (documented on his new Blog site).
Well, maybe I didn't emphatize it enough. I meant BEYOND all those compression tricks. Something different (in addition). %m
