--- On Sun, 12/10/08, RHS Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: RHS Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Smallest Linux > To: "OpenWrt Development List" <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> > Date: Sunday, 12 October, 2008, 11:26 AM > > I am very much looking forward to anyone's further > comments and > suggestions.
I can only suggest looking at NetBSD instead if memory and flash is really tight. You'll do better than with OpenWrt (if you leave aside the lack of tiny dhcp client daemon and 'micro' versions of other useful utils), but you still won't get anywhere near what you want. Here's some info on running NetBSD on an Edimax router: http://linux-adm5120.sourceforge.net/netbsd/ Bear in mind that LwIP (http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/), a tcp/ip stack for embedded systems itself takes up 'tens of kilobytes' of RAM, so how you do with 50KB will depend on whether you need tcp/ip or not presumably. Also, the discussion on the OpenWrt list focuses around a complete OpenWrt installation, whereas you can just use a kernel. There was an interesting article in Linux Journal explaining how to write an ftp client as a kernel module: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7660 One could simply write one's application by inserting one's own code into the C entry point in the kernel, but I think there would need to be a lot of money in it to make it worthwhile. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
