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acme@conectiva.com.br said:
>  heh, after I've read that you managed to boot 2.4 + rmap in a machine
> with just 4 MB after tweaking some table sizes I thought about
> devoting some time to identify those tables and making them options in
> make *config, with even a nice CONFIG_TINY, like you said 8)

> I'll eventually do this, and I'd appreciate if people send me
> suggestions of tables/data structures that can be trimmed/reduced.
> Yeah, I'll take a look at the .config files used in the embedded
> distros. 

CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n should allow you to trim a lot of cruft that most of my 
embedded boxen never use.


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