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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: phk@critter.tfs.com, se@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
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>} > # 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 ?

>What makes you think so ?

It doesn't show the 68 bytes of common variables in pci.o.

Anyway, device drivers are usually small (average < 10K).  You would have to
remove a dozen drivers to make a noticeable difference.

Bruce