Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756857Ab3CFWrP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:47:15 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:8891 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756567Ab3CFWrO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:47:14 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,798,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="265609605" Message-ID: <5137C771.1030308@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:47:13 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Henrik Rydberg , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.9-rc1 References: <20130306080642.GA535@polaris.bitmath.org> <51370990.5040508@linux.intel.com> <20130306100743.GA407@polaris.bitmath.org> <20130306193612.GA513@polaris.bitmath.org> <51379A4F.4020200@linux.intel.com> <20130306195457.GA449@polaris.bitmath.org> <20130306204500.GA335@polaris.bitmath.org> <5137AE06.8060200@linux.intel.com> <5137B9DB.6000605@linux.intel.com> <5137C320.6020400@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 23 On 03/06/2013 02:46 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> Current what is minimum ram is required for boot x86 32bit kernel? 8M? >> >> I have heard of a 6M boot, I believe. > > good. > > How about 64bit kernel? 64M? > Same ballpark. There isn't really an inherent reason a 64-bit kernel needs more space. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/