Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi Robert, Robert Milkowski wrote: PB> Honeycomb is an archival storage appliance based on Solaris and Java. We PB> essentially have a clustered environment (8/16 nodes) and a mechanism to PB> store and retrieve data (SDK/API). The data on the system is protected PB> through self-healing (kind o

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Peter, Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 6:23:43 PM, you wrote: PB> Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Peter Buckingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from disk. The images >>> are ~700MB, but it is possible to make usable Solaris images < 400 MB. >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Buckingham
Joerg Schilling wrote: Peter Buckingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from disk. The images are ~700MB, but it is possible to make usable Solaris images < 400 MB. I am sorry, it seems that I did miss what "Honeycomb" is, yould you please tell agai

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Buckingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from disk. The images > are ~700MB, but it is possible to make usable Solaris images < 400 MB. I am sorry, it seems that I did miss what "Honeycomb" is, yould you please tell again? Jörg -- EMail:[

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >>be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. >> >> > >My minimized install miniroot is a 64MB; so it should be possible to make >that work (it's a full kernel running the installer) > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. My minimized install miniroot is a 64MB; so it should be possible to make that work (it's a full kernel running the installer) Casper _

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: > Interesting, do you have anything published? Not yet. I'm working on putting something together as part of the Honeycomb project. We've had interest both internally and externally about what we are doing. Our system looks more like a server than a traditional embedded applian

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Peter Buckingham wrote: >Ian Collins wrote: > > >>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >>be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. >> >> > >That may well be possible with some more extreme measures. What I started >with is the reduced network core

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: > I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can > be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. That may well be possible with some more extreme measures. What I started with is the reduced network core install which is ~200MB. This doesn't include

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Peter Buckingham wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: > >> Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can >> boot from FLASH on a single board PC? >> >> I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded >> Linux one. > > > For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images th

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can boot from FLASH on a single board PC? I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded Linux one. For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from disk. The images are ~700MB,

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-05 Thread ken mays
I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded Linux one. If not, is there enough interest for an embeddable Open Solaris project? Cheers, Ian -- +1... Ken Mays

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
Rich Teer wrote: >On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ian Collins wrote: > > > >>Is there? I can't find it, are you think of the PPC community? >> >> > >Nope, the Appliances one (though when I originally replied I couldn't >recall the exact name). > > > That community appears to have gone to sleep for a

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ian Collins wrote: > Is there? I can't find it, are you think of the PPC community? Nope, the Appliances one (though when I originally replied I couldn't recall the exact name). -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
Noah yan wrote: > On 2/4/07, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can boot from FLASH on a single board PC? I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded Linux one. >

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
Rich Teer wrote: >On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ian Collins wrote: > > > >>Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can >>boot from FLASH on a single board PC? >> >> > >[...] > > > >>If not, is there enough interest for an embeddable Open Solaris project? >> >> > >Note

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Noah yan
http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=175 and we are working on solars powerpc port (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/) , the first step of making it embedded. Noah On 2/4/07, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ian Collins wrote: > Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can > boot from FLASH on a single board PC? [...] > If not, is there enough interest for an embeddable Open Solaris project? Note only is there interest, but IIRC, there's already an embe

[osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can boot from FLASH on a single board PC? I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded Linux one. If not, is there enough interest for an embeddable Open Solaris project? Cheers, Ian