Hello gentlemen, In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ category, ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant to allow an easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It is based on userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and kernel build. We did our best to make the embedded system creation an easy and specially fast proccess. The main (default) system generates an embedded system image which is about 20MB in size, which is a very generic approach, with a number of wired NIC support, and also the most popular wireless support (including atheros), divert, bridge, dummynet, firewall, etc; and CPU_ELAN (for soekris devices). If the "generic" system gets tighten up the final result can be as low as an 8MB embedded system. We are giving you this intro to ask you please to test TinyBSD out, the most that you can, and send every possible feedback regarding it. The main tinybsd goal is to make embedded systems creation a process which must be 1 - fast 2 - easy 3 - 100% functional If you can test it, we would appreciate your thoughts. If you think any of those 3 goals can't be reached for you, or could be improved, also let me know. Thanks for testing -- Atenciosamente Jean Milanez Melo FreeBSD Brasil LTDA. Fone: (31) 3281-9633 http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br
Hello, thank you for your posting. Can you explain, how it compares to minibsd [https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html]? Norbert
Norbert Koch wrote:> Hello, > > thank you for your posting. > Can you explain, how it compares to minibsd > [https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html]? > > NorbertIt is similar to minibsd in the "copy" proccess, but different in the configuration and image creation stages. TinyBSD does not heavily depend on chroot enviroment, it works directly in a "work" directory, where files copying, kernel build and hier(7) definitions are used in such an usual FreeBSD building enviroment, including mtree definitions in /etc/mtree/, using "make DESTDIR" and "make DISTRIBUTION" whenever it is possible. In fact it is pretty much closer to NanoBSD in the whole proccess, while only similar to minibsd in the "copy" idea. -- Patrick Tracanelli FreeBSD Brasil LTDA. (31) 3281-9633 / 3281-3547 sip://316601@sip.freebsdbrasil.com.br http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br "Long live Hanin Elias, Kim Deal!"
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:17:52PM -0300, Jean Milanez Melo wrote:> Hello gentlemen, > > In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ category, > ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant to allow an > easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It is based on > userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and kernel build.What's wrong with PicoBSD? -ip -- Consumer assistance doesn't.
On Jul 18, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Jean Milanez Melo wrote:> Hello gentlemen, > > In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ > category, ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant > to allow an easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It > is based on userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and > kernel build. > > We did our best to make the embedded system creation an easy and > specially fast proccess. The main (default) system generates an > embedded system image which is about 20MB in size, which is a very > generic approach, with a number of wired NIC support, and also the > most popular wireless support (including atheros), divert, bridge, > dummynet, firewall, etc; and CPU_ELAN (for soekris devices). If the > "generic" system gets tighten up the final result can be as low as > an 8MB embedded system. > > We are giving you this intro to ask you please to test TinyBSD out, > the most that you can, and send every possible feedback regarding > it. The main tinybsd goal is to make embedded systems creation a > process which must be > > 1 - fast > 2 - easy > 3 - 100% functional > > If you can test it, we would appreciate your thoughts. If you think > any of those 3 goals can't be reached for you, or could be > improved, also let me know. > > Thanks for testingWithout having actually tried yet (time hasn't been very permitting lately), is it conceivable to use this tool to create slim-but- functional jails? Sans the kernel part, that is? /Eirik> > -- > Atenciosamente > Jean Milanez Melo > FreeBSD Brasil LTDA. > Fone: (31) 3281-9633 > http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
> Hello gentlemen, > > If you can test it, we would appreciate your thoughts. If you think any > of those 3 goals can't be reached for you, or could be improved, also > let me know. >Hi just had short look at it look nice & fast, first data from an via itx (dmesg, pciconf df) http://martenvijn.nl/tinybsd/via_board.txt for Soekris/wrap I 'll need to do to some kernel configs, I 'll let you know. I would be very nice to have some prefab menus for commom embedded hardware. Marten