[OLPC-devel] Re: patch: add sda devs to buildrom skeleton

[Christopher Blizzard]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Simple: less to go wrong.
> 
> capable: just try to figure out what to do when the kbl with 2 options 
> fails. Now what? But if you have ash+busybox, you do have a chance at 
> least to dig yourself out of a hole.
> 
> Our 6 years of experience with embedding an OS in flash tell us that a 
> linux kernel in there is good, and a simple shell prompt, with zero 
> glitz, and enough commands to get work done, is really the way to go. A 
> pre-packaged program (like kbl) is going to let you down sooner or later.
> 
> I've been running linuxbios ONLY on my OLPC for about a month, and 
> everything I've learned so far only strengthens my opinions on this 
> score. It's very, very helpful to have mkdir, mknod, cat, ls, etc. there 
> for the times when things just aren't working.

So what's the cost in terms of space?

--Chris