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      1 #	$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2002/03/25 07:39:50 lukem Exp $
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      3 From: "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr>
      4 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 95 16:37:39 EDT
      5 Subject: New ramdisk, tiny shell, etc.
      6 [ edited since the original mail ]
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      8 As part of my efforts to build a RAM-disk root kernel for the
      9 sun3 port, I've developed some things that others may want:
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     11 New RAM-disk: [ see sys/dev/ramdisk.c ]
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     13 New "small/tiny" tools, to replace some of the larger
     14 programs that one usually wants on a ramdisk root:
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     16 ssh: (small shell)
     17   * Consumes only about 8K of memory on an m68k!
     18     (saves about 100K in the ramdisk...)
     19   * Can run programs, possibly with I/O redirection
     20   * Just enough to let you run the programs needed
     21     while partitioning and copying miniroot to swap.
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     23 tls: (tiny ls)
     24   * Consumes only about 4K of memory on an m68k!
     25     (saves about 10K in the ramdisk...)
     26   * Long format only, nothing fancy.
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     28 Also, in the new "src/distrib/utils" area, I've made build
     29 directories for some programs that build smaller versions,
     30 usually by adding special CFLAGS
     31 
     32 init_s:  (built with -DLETS_GET_SMALL)
     33   * Forces single-user mode
     34   * Eliminates unnecessary code
     35 
     36 libhack:   small implementation of some libc functions
     37   * Needs only /etc/master.passwd (not pwd.db, spwd.db)
     38   * Reduces size of an m68k crunched binary by about 64K
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     40 x_dd:  built with -DNO_CONV (no conv=* options)
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     42 x_ifconfig:  supports inet only
     43 
     44 The x_ prefix on the above is to make the names unique so
     45 crunchgen will not confuse them with the real sources.
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