[BusyBox] Compiling busybox with newlib [PATCH]

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 04 March 2005 12:57 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:31:12 -0600, Jason Schoon <floydpink at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A bootloader would be a good example.  We use newlib to build our
> > bootloader.
> >
> > However, I'm not sure what busybox would be providing in that case.  I
> > would be curious to hear the usage case as well.
>
> Very astute. What I'm building here is, more or less, a bootloader
> that can fetch it's IP with udhcp, fetch the local time with rdate,
> fetch a disk image with tftp, and boot up the image. If any part of
> the boot process fails, it can throw up a simple lash shell on a
> Telnet (or rsh or ssh) port so that the system can be debugged and
> fixed. md5sum can be used to verify the disk image is sound, and tftp
> can be used to transfer the device's configuration to a developer for
> analysis. I've been thoroughly impressed how busybox seems to have
> included any tool I could think of that would be useful to a
> bootloader. It even includes a patch for multicast tftp, which I've
> thought about writing more than once while waiting for dozens of nodes
> to fetch the same disk image.

Can we see it?  (Since you're creating this "single binary" out of GPL'd 
busybox pieces, I'm assuming your project is also GPL.)

Rob