Hubert Feyrer wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jason Hecker wrote:What documentation should I be looking at as a guide for getting a FLASHable (as in standard memeory mapped FLASH) image with a compressed kernel and filesystem? I've picked up some clues from the archives of this mailing list and from poking about in the arch conf files and other source but there are things missing.
The process itself is scattered across a bunch of machine-dependent and machine-independent Makefile-fragments, see src/distrib/common and src/distrib/i386/floppies/common etc.
I have written some docs about creating tiny OSes based on NetBSD. http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2003/09/Features102.html and http://brianrose.net/family/fetch.php?dir=Brian/NetBSD/Embedded&filename=content.html You could probably combine these with a motherboard that will boot from a USB flash drive to get a decent prototype from off the shelf equipment. -- Brian