Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: [baselayout2] Who should create /lib/rc/init.d/* ?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:29:46
Message-Id: fh7013$l7l$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Re: [baselayout2] Who should create /lib/rc/init.d/* ? by Matthijs Kooijman
1 Matthijs Kooijman schrieb:
2 >> I did the same and I'm still working on it (see my thread; 1.st mail was
3 >> on 17.10.2007). Right now I'm working on better mdev control, then I
4 > Yeah, I read the thread. Could you perhaps send me the thread in mbox format or
5 > something like that, so I can reply to them? I can't cat the message id's from
6 > archives.gentoo.org
7
8 I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this. I'm reading and posting on this
9 list with thunderbird as newsreader via gmane.org.
10
11 >
12 >> want to create init scripts for certain bb tools like syslogd,
13 >> consolefont, etc.
14 > I'll probably be walking the same road :-)
15 >
16 > I'm currently working on patch busybox udhcpc to support --env, which seems
17 > like the sensible solution to that problem.
18
19 That's cool. At the moment I'm using static IP, but I would prefer dhcp.
20
21 >
22 >> If you need some input on how to use runlevels from baselayout-2 with
23 >> init from bb, I have described my setup in the thread mentioned above.
24 >> Otherwise I have an absolute minimal system with only uclibc, busybox
25 >> and baselayout-2 (and of course the kernel :-) ), which is altogether
26 >> around 3MB.
27 > I did the same (only added dropbear) and ended up at around 8MB. Did you
28 > disable a lot of busybox options to get so small?
29
30 I only disabled stuff like httpd. Otherwise nearly everything of bb is
31 enabled. Including dropbear but without kernel modules it is 3.3 MB,
32 with kernel modules 6.0 MB. I removed every static library (*.h; *.a;
33 *.la), man, doc, and info.
34
35 Regards
36 Marc
37
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