Subject: Re: Looking ahead
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/05/2007 10:51:26
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:25:41 -0400
Allen Briggs <briggs@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> > * most of the base system tools as installable packages
> 
> Why, specifically?  I wonder if this is similar to or different
> from the "build to image" functionality I mentioned.  The idea
> there is that you would have some kind of configuration tied to
> the source tree and you would build a complete "firmware" image
> directly.

I'm not sure what you mean by "build to image", but for me, finishing
syspkg would help a lot on the regular system as well as for embedded
systems.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb