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List:       owfs-developers
Subject:    Re: [Owfs-developers] simultaneous changes
From:       Christian Magnusson <christian.magnusson () runaware ! com>
Date:       2005-04-14 12:19:49
Message-ID: 1113481189.18922.13.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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I haven't tried to change too much things in linksys original
flash-image. I have just added my own source and binaries to it.
I won't replace the shell to some new ash-version since I don't
know how all their cron-jobs and scripts are working.
The config to busybox doesn't seem to contain many applications
that could remove unless I want to break the router's functionality.

/Christian


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:37 -0400, Geo Carncross wrote:
> WARNING: COMPLETELY NON-OWFS RELATED.
> 
> but read on if you're battling these problems on embedded devices too...
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:33 +0200, Christian Magnusson wrote:
> > The WRT54G router use busybox, and therefor it's a huge binary to start.
> > Resident memory is about 480kb when starting /bin/sh. I guess it would
> > be an idea to have /bin/sh as a separate binary if many shells are
> > supposed to run on the router.
> 
> Busybox can be reduced in-size from 500k. I have statically linked
> busybox under 250k without trying, and it can get down to around 100k if
> you work on it. Discard features you don't need. Chances are: you don't
> need tar AND cpio. You probably don't need losetup or loadfont either.
> Drop 'em. No keyboard? Axe loadkmap. No floppy? Why are you linking
> fdflush?
> 




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