Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:36:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-CURRENT PicoBSD Message-ID: <20000718093614.C17054@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000717133607.A99126@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006272215210.16600-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <200006280824.KAA39572@info.iet.unipi.it> <20000717133607.A99126@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Monday, 17 July 2000 at 13:36:07 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Wed 2000-06-28 (10:24), Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> That was the problem I kept running into. I tried to hack them up to get >>> working on 4.0 but had no success. 4.0 has massive kernel bloat. :( >> >> exactly - this is one (not the only) reason i still stick with 3.5 >> on most of my systems. > > How big does your compressed kernel get to? I can only get my 5.x > kernel.gz to 508k at the moment. Removing snapshots code may get me > back another 10k or so. Removing PS/2 mouse gets me 15k or so. > atapi-cd gives me about the same. > > loader uses 83k, but I haven't tried to remove anything there. It might be interesting to try to do without loader. The loader people don't like the idea, but it should be possible to boot a kernel directly from boot. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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