On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Pratyush Kshirsagar <[email protected]> wrote: > hello, > > i was thinking of project idea as to port busybox for embeded dev on > dragonfly bsd. This would bring dfly with a flash into the embedded > world. > > What do you guys think? >
The BSD's have traditionally done this somewhat differently... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crunchgen&sektion=1 There is a tool called crunchgen which takes a more flexible approach to the same end as busybox. There are also probably areas in which it could be improved. -- I don't think we maintain this tool in base, but other BSD's do. In combination with crunchgen, portions of DragonFly base system utilities could be made to conditionally compile only with the whole system. This could further reduce their size, and if approached sensibly, could help to modularize and improve the code of the various base system utilities that were touched. I see no compelling reason someone would choose to use BusyBox/DragonFly over BusyBox/Linux, apart from HAMMER, which definitely is not an embedded filesystem. Sam
