[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot:packagetarget/device/Atmel

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:07 +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:55 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > tor 2007-07-26 klockan 09:29 +0200 skrev Hans-Christian Egtvedt:
> > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:03 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 00:49 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > > >> > ulf at uclibc.org wrote: 

<cut AVR32 patch size about 8 MB extracted>
 
> > The full buildroot is about 6 MB so this is more than doubling
> > the download time.
> > At home in Stockholm with 100 Mbps Ethernet it is less of a problem,
> > but where I am now with 10-20 kB/s Internet access it sucks...
> > A prepatched toolchain which is downloaded once is a much
> > more attractive alternative, so this is what I am going to submit.
> 
> Only problem is that we do not (yet) have a prepatched toolchain
> available on the net which is IMHO working.
> 
> When bzip'ing a 3 MB text file it usually ends up well below 500k, still
> to big though :/

Total size of a bzip2 -9 compressed tarball is 5.6 MB. It contains all
the AVR32 patches and a BR2 snapshot from 20070718. IMHO not that large.

Most users will have to download the Linux kernel and a lot of other
quite large applications.

-- 
With kind regards,

Hans-Christian Egtvedt, siv.ing. (M.Sc.)
Applications Engineer - AVR32 System Solutions - Atmel Norway