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David Moberg wrote:
>
> In the future, once uClibc hits its stride, do you think 
> that it will be possible to get it down even further to the
> essentials?

The libraries would certainly be smaller with uClib.
However the libraries aren't really essental.  You can 
delete the entire /lib directory and BL3 will still boot.  

The choice of libraries is arbitrary.  Static binaries 
(like the BL3 Xvesa) need no libraries, so a library-less
distribution is possible (but significantly bigger).  I 
put a library in BL3 for two reasons: 
(1) to keep the size of BL3 binaries down
(2) to give users access to many packages (Slackware)

I choose libc5 because it is significantly smaller than
glibc2.  Although uClib is even smaller, it doesn't fulfill
reason (2) above.

Cheers,
Steven

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