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Re: NetBSD on embedded devices



https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This looks quite similar to what the OP wants. Although I'm not sure of the licensing issues.

Regards,
Utkarsh Anand


On Jun 4, 2017 23:47, "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> One key idea that may help you is not mine -- it's due to Matt Thomas.  It is
> the idea of, making an *additional* bunch of sets files specifying
> exactly and only the parts of the system you need.  Then install those
> (embedbase.txt, embedetc.tgz, etc.) rather than base, etc, and so forth.
> That will give you a simple, maintainable way to build a NetBSD that
> does what you need, is still a coherent whole rather than a pile of
> disjoint "system packages", and is much smaller.

One interesting feature is also to crunchgen(1) binaries to reduce
memory footprint, which is interesting when booting a kernel with
ramdisk. It works nicely, but is not documented very much.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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