Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:12:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? Message-ID: <199604262212.PAA28056@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604252317.BAA01406@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Apr 26, 96 01:17:30 am
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> Perhaps just for the fun of it, I was trying to figure out what could > be the smallest kernel I could get for a diskless system. > By removing most things I managed to a 544.319 bytes kernel > (some 70KB are symbols), although this has FFS and no WD/FD driver. > NFS instead of FFS requires 100KB more. > > I was wondering, is there some option (apart from gzip) which can > be turned on to produce a smaller kernel ? Especially for NFS, > perhaps the 100KB are for both client & server, UDP and TCP code ? Strip the symbols. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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