From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 1: 6: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978A537B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C92F43E65 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7584pu63265; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:51 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208050804.g7584pu63265@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf In-Reply-To: <200207241836.g6OIa5pW056310@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jul 24, 2002 02:36:05 pm" To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:51 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett, > > We can save some space (I think) by not gziping the individual help > > files, but leave them unzipped. Then the final gzip of the whole image > > should be able to do a better job of it. But I doubt if it will give > > us enough room for nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko. :-/ Maybe we should > > start a third floppy which contains the "lesser used" stuff. No I'm > > not volunteering. :-) > > As I believe I pointed out several months ago, linking all of the > kernel modules together into one big module saves a substantial amount > of space (all of those dynamic linking tables which reference the same > external symbols for most every module). Do you have a reference for this? Or can you tell me how to do this? I have been searching for that email, but can't find it. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message