From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 09:49:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA10877 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:49:49 -0700 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA10867 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:49:46 -0700 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0t0AXA-0003w0C; Tue, 3 Oct 95 09:49 PDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA09094; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 17:49:37 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) cc: Warner Losh , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 1995 17:39:13 +0100." <199510031639.AA28447@Sysiphos> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 17:49:36 +0100 Message-ID: <9092.812738976@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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)