I have a max of 7.5 megs to play with on my wrt targets. This is why I have been making the recommendations that I have been.
-Matt On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Lorenzo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > To try to get a bit practical today I tried to setup a guide to assemble a > base image from > which the freedombox firmware can be developed (by adding more packages and > properly > configuring them). > > The first thing I did was to play a bit with EmDebian to try to understand > how small it can get. > I've built two images using multistrap with EmDebian Grip and a Baked > EmDebian Grip (using > the demo repo published on the site) for the i386 architecture. > > The size of the Grip install (with no optional packages) was of ~ 40 MB > (using clean=true). > The size of the Baked grip install (built using packages=dash) was of ~ 25 > MB. > > They seem a bit big compared to other embedded distros. As a comparison a > buildroot > image can fit in 4MB. > > I'm not an expert in emdebian nor in embedded programming, for this reason > I write to the list before > continuing. > > My question, for the people who know EmDebian well, do you think EmDebian > could be a good base distribution > for the freedombox? Can the images be made smaller? From what I understand > from the website > Crush is discontinued, and I read a mail in the emdebian mailing list there > is no Grip for i386-ulibc. > > The other question is for the people with experience in embedded > programming. Does the size of > Grip (40MB) for the base system look excessive for a freedombox? Is it > really necessary to build something > smaller? This size seems to be a problem if we want to target devices in > the class of wireless > routers but should we target them in the first place? (this question is > probably for the whole list) > > > Best Regards, > Lorenzo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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