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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 1995 17:49:36 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. 
Message-ID:  <9092.812738976@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 1995 17:39:13 %2B0100." <199510031639.AA28447@Sysiphos> 

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> On Oct 2, 20:32, Warner Losh wrote:
> } Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
> } How much space do the PCI drivers take up?  Would it be reasonable to
> } assume that you either have a 4M machine with <= 486 and no PCI bus or
> } that you have a PCI bus machine with > 4M of memory?
> } 
> } Then it would be a simple matter of two different kernels, right?
> 
> The PCI code is rather small, actually ...
> 
> # size pci.o pcibus.o pcisupport.o 
> text    data    bss     dec     hex
> 8352    288     12      8652    21cc    pci.o

Before you start comparing these numbers, the "bss" is not correct as far
as I remember, is it ?
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