Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:46:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: miniboot.iso Message-ID: <20030803144654.GA82403@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org> References: <20030721214042.GA563@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6216.3020006@freebsd.org> <20030721220419.GA909@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F1C6633.5070009@freebsd.org> <20030722070239.GA2687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729191917.GA66399@sunbay.com> <3F26CBC1.7030704@freebsd.org> <20030731094249.GB8699@sunbay.com> <20030803014647.GD98015@dragon.nuxi.com> <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:15:38PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
[...]
> It looks like the kernel and kmods are being built with '-g'. When I
> 'strip -x' /boot/kernel, it shinks from 47MB to 21MB. Taking out
> kernel.debug drops another 5MB. Can anyone say why we build the release
> bits with '-g'? I'd sure like to save that extra space on the mini-iso,
> and have that extra space for packages on the full ISO.
>
Only kernel.debug is there; the modules are normally built. If
you look at my original email, I also said this:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size
^^^
> is 16M, which I think many people can afford. (The size of the
> miniinst.iso image is 231M.)
>
> Removing *.ko and kernel.debug from /boot/kernel gives 7M of
^^
> uncompressed, and 3M of compressed miniboot.iso image. The
> patch does not remove them currently, adding one line would
> do it. Anyone has a reason why these should not be removed?
> One could think that the acpi.ko may be needed for IA64, but
> it's already part of the GENERIC kernel.
Then John explained that we want modules and kernel.debug will
be removed from stable releases.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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