svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jun 14 18:02:18 UTC 2015


> On Jun 13, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > I guarantee that no matter what you've worked on, there's
> > approximately five orders of magnitude of shipping devices whose
> > entire storage space can be measured in 1 digit megabytes. Each year.
> 
> (And yes - there's an appreciable set of them for which freebsd boots,
> runs and keeps running on them.0
> 
> You can buy em too, some of them even under $60.
> 
> Can FreeBSD now not run on these systems because of libxo?

Yes. The root image sizes for a reasonable subset of the system now exceeds
the flash that I have on my embedded arm boards. I have to spill over onto
the SD card if I want to make progress. Some trimming could be done, but 11
images are quite a bit bigger than 10 images for the same software.

Warner

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