Early boot, activation, upgrades

[C. Scott Ananian]

On 7/9/07, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
> I looked at those git trees and didn't see the python runtime stuff in
> the initramfs tree.  How does it get included, and how big is it?

Packages in initramfs are specified by:

http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/d-i;a=blob;f=build/pkg-lists/olpc/common;hb=HEAD

python2.5-minimal is about 2MB of the 3MB compressed initramfs.  The
python2.5 binary is 1.4M (compressed) of that; it's likely that I
could trim this down a bit more -- I notice that the python2.5 binary
is unstripped, and stripping yields 470k compressed -- but I'm
reluctant to minimize stuff until Ivan's written his activation code
and we know roughly what packages we'll be wanting.  For instance,
there are a lot of different encodings represented in
/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings which I've left because I don't know at
this point if activation will require a localized UI.

For comparison, the existing traditional 'mayflower' initrd created
used for emulation is 2.3MB.  So at the instant we're paying about
700k for the privilege of writing our activation code in python, but
this number is pretty bogus.
  --scott

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