[ELDK] Pruning Filesystem

[John Connolly]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> My project based on the eldk requires a much smaller footprint than we
>> currently have.  I'm going through the process of hand-removing many
>> packages (*-devel, etc), but it appears that the end-goal of 60mb
>> (confined by on-board flash space limitations of 64MB) is unattainable
>
> It is pretty uncommon in order to build a bicycle, by starting off with
> another wheel-vehicle, say a truck, and then to strip away the unneeded
> pieces.

Understood.  Nice analogy ;D

>
> With the ELDK this is just the same, use the other direction, i.e. start
> with a minimal system and extend it as neccessary.  An especially nice
> starting point is our Root File System Builder which starts off with
> only a few megabytes[1].

Perfect.  This is precisely the starting point I was hoping for.

>
>> due to the huge package (~270MB):
>>
>>   277036416 bits crosstool-targetcomponents-ppc_4xx
>>
>> Any pointers?  Is 60MB attainable?
>
> Depending on your application and the service you use out of ELDK, this
> should still be easy.

Great.  Easy is good.  Thanks again.

>
>> Has anyone successfully pruned away the ELDK in this fashion?
>
> I doubt it.
>
> Cheers
>  Detlev
>
> [1] http://git.denx.de/?p=rfsb.git;a=summary
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