[Buildroot] [PATCH 03/14] RESEND: handle MMU configuration

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 12:06:18 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> writes:
>
>Hi,
>
> Thomas> What's the usage of these two new options ?
> >> 
> >> Yes, I would like to know this as well. I would imagine properly
> >> supporting nommu would take quite some more effort than this (E.G. most
> >> packages should get hidden).
>
> Bernhard> why would you want to hide most of the package?
>
>Because they use fork or other nommu-nono's?

On a nommu box you'd typically not install KDE or stuff like that.
The typical package which will be used on nommu boxes should handle
fork vs, vfork just fine. If a package does not then this package
needs to be fixed and the fix sent upstream, obviously.



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