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From: "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr>
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 95 16:37:39 EDT
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Subject: New ramdisk, tiny shell, etc.
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[ edited since the original mail ]
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As part of my efforts to build a RAM-disk root kernel for the
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sun3 port, I've developed some things that others may want:
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New RAM-disk: [ see sys/dev/ramdisk.c ]
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New "small/tiny" tools, to replace some of the larger
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programs that one usually wants on a ramdisk root:
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ssh: (small shell)
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* Consumes only about 8K of memory on an m68k!
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(saves about 100K in the ramdisk...)
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* Can run programs, possibly with I/O redirection
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* Just enough to let you run the programs needed
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while partitioning and copying miniroot to swap.
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tls: (tiny ls)
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* Consumes only about 4K of memory on an m68k!
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(saves about 10K in the ramdisk...)
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* Long format only, nothing fancy.
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Also, in the new "src/distrib/utils" area, I've made build
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directories for some programs that build smaller versions,
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usually by adding special CFLAGS
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init_s: (built with -DLETS_GET_SMALL)
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* Forces single-user mode
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* Eliminates unnecessary code
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libhack: small implementation of some libc functions
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* Needs only /etc/passwd (not pwd.db, spwd.db)
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* Reduces size of an m68k crunched binary by about 64K
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x_dd: built with -DNO_CONV (no conv=* options)
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x_ifconfig: supports inet only
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The x_ prefix on the above is to make the names unique so
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crunchgen will not confuse them with the real sources.
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