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Re: Roadblocks to further widespread adoption of NetBSD in embedded systems (at least in my neck of the woods)



On 03/26/2010 09:59 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jack Atkinson wrote:
4. Ability to build a small kernel with small subset of userland utilities much like BusyBox on Linux, but not GPL.

This can be done in various ways (have miniroot filesystem inside kernel, load miniroot as kernel module, etc.), but there's ~no documentation.
Maybe have a look at the g4u project for an example implementation:
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
A few years ago I wrote a howto about making a custom compact flash image including inserting miniroot file system inside kernel: http://www.yazzy.org/docs/NetBSD/netbsd-on-cf.txt

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