From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 17 17: 7: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E3437B705 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA21307; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:36:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:36:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Doug White , Albert Yang , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-CURRENT PicoBSD Message-ID: <20000718093614.C17054@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200006280824.KAA39572@info.iet.unipi.it> <20000717133607.A99126@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000717133607.A99126@mithrandr.moria.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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