[RFC] what do we do with picobsd ?

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Tue Jan 31 13:29:00 PST 2006


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <20060131.131654.134137067.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
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>>In message: <43DFC2D5.7040706 at errno.com>
>>           Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> writes:
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>>Since I've started working on the bring up on an ARM based board, I've
>>been wanting something that is easy to work with and that worked.  I
>>think it would help us a lot in the embedded space if we had something
>>integrated into the base OS to do this stuff.
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>I agree.  I think we need to be much more inclusive in our concept of
>a 'release' than we are now.
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>As I see it, PicoBSD with its "additive" approach would cover the
>low-capacity (<32 MB ?) range, NanoBSD with its "subtractive" approach
>takes over from there, FreeSBIE covers the "don't touch my disk"
>range and finally the full blown release as we know it.
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I'd like to see us take the freesbie release into the tree somewhere 
(since it uses so many
ports, maybe in ports, or maybe in tools)


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