svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls

[Julian Elischer]

On 6/14/15 10:48 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 13 June 2015 at 18:22, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
> It's a tight squeeze as it is. Running in 8MB of flash (even if it's
> compressed) is still an exercise in "what can you cut out."
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> My point isn't that it isn't running because of libxo; my point is
> that arguing about "embedded" involving "lots of storage" is woefully
> incorrect and will continue to be until those gigabytes of storage are
> available for a penny. Which yes, I'm guessing will happen in my
> career - but it's also quite likely code bloat will continue to chase
> that upward.

do we have a WITHOUT_LIBXO option on sources?  I believe we should..
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> -adrian
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