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minifs is a linux distribution maker to create very tight & compact monolithic firmwares

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-06-29 · latest 2019-10-12

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  1. …a bit of C for tools. Works on ARM, whatever really, as long as there is a kernel and a toolchain. https://github.com/buserror/minifs
  2. …actually 'knowing' trivialities like exact library names and such is a waste of good neuron.. [0]: http://github.com/buserror/minifs/
  3. …heaps and bounds at simplifying what used to be the nightmarish Makefiles. [0]: I'm the author of https://github.com/buserror/minifs
    comment by buserror · 2015-12-17 · in Autotools Mythbuster
  4. …a system, even if it's an initramfs, without having to do a full rebuild/reboot. Quite handy. [0]: https://github.com/buserror/minifs
  5. …filesystem; if I need a package, I just rebuild it with it, and reboot. I'm the author of minifs: https://github.com/buserror/minifs that is made to do just that. However, we're reaching the point where the kernel is so full of crud that…
  6. There is also my own 'minifs' https://github.com/buserror/minifs ; it's targeted at embedded, but it works fine on x86s too. Haven't ported it to musl yet (mostly due to the fact that musl wasn't yet merged into crosstool-NG) but that's…
    comment by buserror · 2015-06-29 · in How to compile C apps with musl and Clang