From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 07:47:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1CA37B401; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9BB43FBD; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h73Eks0U083379 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:46:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h73EksDW083374; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:46:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:46:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20030803144654.GA82403@sunbay.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: Peter Wemm cc: Jake Burkholder cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: miniboot.iso X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:47:17 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 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, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/LSBeUkv4P6juNwoRAsl4AJ9IikvD7RyDALa7XsJRXIxY7FwnKACeL9H+ ZnUWIaf6p9JCCO3SmrEjXBU= =Hsl0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--