From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 15:35:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DE2852 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:35:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F288FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:35:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)) for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:35:22 +0100 Message-ID: <50B38C23.2010404@ose.nl> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:34:59 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help review the FAQ References: <1353868081735-5764056.post@n5.nabble.com> <1353941396782-5764313.post@n5.nabble.com> <50B38A3F.6020001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50B38A3F.6020001@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:35:32 -0000 On 11/26/2012 04:26 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 26.11.2012 16:49, Jakub Lach: >> Absolutely not, it's a heavily stripped custom kernel on this machine on >> /boot/. > > Do you call this heavily stripped? :) > > > ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5757970 Nov 26 10:57 /boot/kernel/kernel > > However it's very hard to strip kernel further and make it usable for all > machines. > >> I was pointing to that, if my kernel is 9 MB, there's no way GENERIC could >> be >> 1.5-2.5 MB. > > That's true... > i386 kernel with the only devices I need without debug symbols is 4.5MB on 7.4-STABLE fb1:/home/Freebee % uname -a FreeBSD fb1 7.4-STABLE FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE #7: Mon Nov 26 11:27:42 CET 2012 root@fb1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FB1 i386 fb1:/home/Freebee % ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4.6M Nov 26 11:27 /boot/kernel/kernel amd64 same story on 9.1-RC3 is 6.3MB [Freebee@sys:~] $ uname -a FreeBSD sys 9.1-RC3 FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0: Wed Oct 31 11:56:55 CET 2012 root@sys:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYS amd64 [Freebee@sys:~] $ ls -hl /boot/kernel/kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6.3M Oct 31 11:56 /boot/kernel/kernel