Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:30:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:30:35 -0400 Received: from 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.225]:48084 "EHLO 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:30:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:36:06 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Gigi Duru cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux? In-Reply-To: <20021005193650.17795.qmail@web13202.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 33 On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Gigi Duru wrote: > Trivial experiment: configure out _ALL_ the options on > 2.5.38 and build bzImage. My result? A totally useless > 270KB kernel (compressed). > > Now try to put in some useful stuff and the > _compressed_ image will cheerfully approach 1MB. > I know you guys are struggling to bring "world class > VM & IO" to Linux, The 270 kB kernel image still includes the VM, so it's probably something else that is bloating your kernel. It would be useful to figure out exactly what so we can fix it before 2.6 is released. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - 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/