Moinak Ghosh wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Maier-Komor
<tho...@maier-komor.de> wrote:
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.
And kmdb ? How will you debug kernel panics ?
Guy's "poor man's debugger"... Polaris didn't get kmdb.
Regards,
Moinak.
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