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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Preach it (was Some recent changes to GENERIC)
To: sos@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:47:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
        pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au, jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br
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> 
> In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> > 
> > Still, the resulting kernel is:
> > 
> > j@uriah 195% size kernel
> > text    data    bss     dec     hex
> > 434176  40960   25828   500964  7a4e4
> > 
> > The prime single offending object files by size are syscons.o, pmap.o,
> > and userconfig.o.  Umm, the latter is not even an option right now --
> > we bloat all our kernels with it, regardless of whether it's needed or
> > not.
> > 
> 
If I remove all __inlines in pmap.c, I can save about 3K.  Maybe we
should/shoundn't have a "SMALL_KERNEL" option?

John