Moinak Ghosh schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C. <codest...@osunix.org> wrote: >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >>>> Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris enough so that it >>>> could fit into 8MB of flash or would that require spinning of an embedded >>>> version which makes a lot of compromises? >>>> >>> You might have a look at MilaX and BeleniX. >>> But 8MB??? Forget about it. >>> >> Not true.. Milax I think can get down to 24M and still has a lot of kernel >> modules/drivers which could be parsed out. There's also the fact that milax >> still probably contains binaries for 32/64 bit.. maybe headers and worst >> case we could resort to binary stripping and or change compiler flags to >> optimize for space. Someone of course correct me if I'm wrong.. This is of >> course not at all to imply that it can be done tomorrow or very easy. Just >> that there's still room for more size reductions. Anyone daring/crazy >> enough that wants to work on it feel free to ping me. > > Stripping kernel stuff may not be practical in osol-land since all the > debug > info is compressed and stored as CTF data. Dtrace, mdb and other tools > depend on it. > > Regards, > Moinak.
Well, I guess for embedded applications it's fine to remove DTrace, mdb, and friends. - Thomas _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
