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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)
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