Subject: Re: let's get small
To: None <tech-embed@netbsd.org>
From: Erik Berls <cyber@ono-sendai.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 02/27/2007 11:26:36
Orthogonally, there has been some work to get crossbuilding to work
with pkgsrc.  It requires a few kernel mods on the host.  It was the
topic of a pkgsrccon whitepaper a couple of years back.  IIRC the only
targets were ARM, and MIPS.

-=erik.

On 2/27/07, David Young <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:22:09PM -0800, Erik Berls wrote:
> > I don't think the goal was to move them out of base.  I think what's
> > wanted is them to have a smaller footprint.  This functionality is
> > needed in small systems.  Tho, hardware is catching up.  In some
> > places we've got 32M of system RAM!
> >
> > -=erik.
>
> Erik,
>
> Right.  I need most of the functions I mention, and I need to cross-build
> them.
>
> Dave
>
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