Monday, June 22, 2009

LiveUSB for Asus Eee PC

I've tried to prepare MilaX LiveUSB for Asus Eee PC a year ago. Today WiFi and Ethernet drivers work well for my 900.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Busybox on OpenSolaris ARM

After some steps I've got busybox running on OpenSolaris ARM under Qemu:



And here's the output I get from booting in debug mode (look how modstatic loads modules).

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

First OpenSolaris ARM release

Great news from OpenSolaris ARM Port project: first OS release for ARM platform is now available. This release support NEC Electronics's NaviEngine 1 (NE1) and has some interesting features: genunix, unix and required device drivers are statically linked at building time as vmunix to save the startup time, zfs is modified to save the runtime memory.


So I hope that after some time we'll see OpenSolaris powered PDA.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Minimizing SunStudio

SunStudio Express uses ~900 mb on my Nevada. But for building usual C app I need only small part of SS. For example I used only these files for building imlib2 (I tried various flags):

# cd /opt/SUNWspro; find .
.
./lib
./lib/crt1x.o
./lib/crti.o
./lib/sys
./lib/sys/libyabe.so
./lib/sys/lib_I_quad.so
./lib/sys/libsunir.so
./lib/sys/liblni.so.1
./lib/libdwarf.so
./lib/crt1.o
./lib/libmopt.a
./lib/libdwarf.so.1
./lib/lib_I_dbg_gen.so.1
./lib/values-xa.o
./lib/libm.il
./lib/lib_I_dbg_gen.so
./lib/crtn.o
./bin
./bin/iropt
./bin/fbe
./bin/cc
./bin/ir2hf
./bin/ube
./bin/acomp

# du -hs
19M .

Of course you also need headers for successful compilation, but referring to cc if space is important factor for you - 19 is not 900, right?

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