On Fri, Jan 21, 2011, Jamie Bennett wrote: > Currently we are reassessing whether or not the Headless image meets > the requirements for a small, fast, useable image for board > verification. Just for information the current stats as of 2011-01-21 > are: > > * Download Size: 64M > * Download size with OMAP3 hwpack: 100M > * Package count: 260 > > The list of package currently on the image can be found at: > > https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/Specs/HeadlessImage#Package List > > The current thoughts are to cut this image down as much as possible > whilst still retaining the ability to boot to a command prompt. The > new image would be a 'nano' image and would be useful for verifying > that the hardware boots. For a more complete console-only image for > developers a full-featured developer image would be created. See my > other email entitled "Call for opinion: Linaro 'Developer' Image" > for that. > > Is anyone *really* against this idea and is satisfied with the > Headless image in its current state? Opinions? Thoughts? Criticisms?
Could we do with an initrd instead of an image? I mean, busybox + small set of tools is probably enough for validation, and will be quite small. There is inherent bloat as soon as we add a package manager in the mix -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
