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.

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).

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.

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?