[yocto] I hate busybox!

William Mills wmills at ti.com
Tue Sep 15 08:39:09 PDT 2015


On 09/15/2015 10:53 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 09/15/15 10:47, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> The only place busybox (and
>> toybox) are needed today are in the MMU-less-type systems, such as
>> Cortex-Ms etc.
> 
> Actually, the presence or lack of MMU is irrelevant, I meant to single
> out those systems with limited on-SoC flash.
> 

OE-core is capable of building a system that has no GPLv3.
This capability is still important to some users and busybox is needed
for that as I understand.

(Other users want the capability to build a system w/o proprietary code.
 OE serves both needs.)





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