Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264473AbUADIkK (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 03:40:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264488AbUADIkJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 03:40:09 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:20700 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264473AbUADIkG (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 03:40:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:40:05 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny1 tree for small systems Message-ID: <20040104084005.GU18208@waste.org> References: <20040103030814.GG18208@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1451 Lines: 31 On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:42:43AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Matt Mackall writes: > > > Contributions and suggestions are encouraged. In particular, it would > > be helpful if people with non-x86 hardware could take a stab at > > extending some of the stuff that's currently only been done for X86 to > > other architectures. > > I just tried a kernel build with as much as possible turned off. This > uncovered a couple of bugs, which I fixed with the attached diff. But > it looks like there finally is a light at the end of the rainbow. Thanks. I actually cleaned up all this stuff earlier today, will probably do another release shortly. > 220K compressed and 371K uncompressed. This is a serious reduction from > previous versions. There is still a huge amount of code I can't compile > out but this is certainly progress. Thank you. Suggestions? I'm rapidly exhausting a lot of the obvious candidates. My target build at the moment is ide + ext2 + proc + ipv4 + console, and that's currently at around 800K uncompressed, booting in a little less than 2.5MB. Hoping to get that under 2. -- Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting - 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/