Bug 235610

Summary: RFE: minimal busybox subpackage for use with petitboot bootloader.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component: busyboxAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
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config file for petitboot
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correct config file none

Description David Woodhouse 2007-04-07 23:12:08 UTC 
Petitboot is a kexec-based bootloader intended primarily for use on PlayStation
3, where we put a kernel+initrd into flash to act as a bootloader.

In such a system we need a very minimal busybox, using something like the
attached config. Please could we build a 'busybox-petitboot' subpackage for it,
just like we do for the 'busybox-anaconda' subpackage?
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2007-04-07 23:12:08 UTC 
Created attachment 151922 [details]
config file for petitboot
Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2007-04-07 23:22:07 UTC 
It seems that the addition of -lsepol to $(cmd_link) in Rules.mak, which is done
by busybox-1.2.0-selinux.patch, isn't actually needed. It gets added to
$(LIBRARIES) anyway. Removing that makes the minimal busybox.petitboot no longer
link against libsepol -- while the other two builds do still link against it
correctly.

Having done that, we can remove busybox-1.2.0-gcc41.patch entirely -- it doesn't
do anything except add a single space on the line previously modified by the
selinux patch.
Comment 3 David Woodhouse 2007-04-07 23:24:45 UTC 
Created attachment 151923 [details]
CVS repository patch.
Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2007-04-08 00:15:55 UTC 
I think you have to turn off CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE (in busybox-petitboot.config)
because it fails otherwise. It would save about 30KiB though, so I'll look into
fixing it at some point.
Comment 5 David Woodhouse 2007-04-10 05:06:21 UTC 
Created attachment 152088 [details]
correct config file

This is the config file to use.