[mythtv] Anyone interested?

Jason mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu Jan 9 22:45:27 EST 2003


Sounds like their is some interest then.  OK, here is my plan.  Im going
to start off with a Linux From Scratch 4.0 distro, slightly trimmed to
size things down.  I use a mini-itx board with a VIA C3 chip on it, so the
system should run on anything since the kernel has to be awful generic to
run on this chip.   At boot, an 8 meg RAM disc is created for initrd and a
few other things, then I RAMFS the entire remaining RAM.  I do this
because since RAMFS is dynamic, only the amount of RAM needed is used, so
if we only need 1k of RAM for storage (for things like syslog and pid
files) then we only use 1k of RAM.  Downside to this, I haven't been able
to get quotas to work with RAMFS, so it is possible to DOS the hell out of
the box and fill up all available RAM. This is only a problem on my
firewall, and to remedy that I just enabled remote syslog. I guess this
guy wouldnt need syslog at all, so this might be a non-issue.
I plan on using GCC-3.2 and glib 2.2.5,  anyone know of any problems with
that before I start?
I was also going to try to use network storage (think nfs or smb) so
storing recorded movies would be a little easier.  I will begin on the
base cd image tomorrow and this weekend, put a blurb on my website about
this and its progress and hopefully have something to show before too much
longer.

-- 
Jason Baker
baker@cyborgworkshop.com
www.cyborgworkshop.com




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