Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755027AbZCKBiS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:38:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752591AbZCKBiB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:38:01 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37569 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752551AbZCKBiA (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:38:00 -0400 To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , the arch/x86 maintainers Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support? From: Andi Kleen References: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:15:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:20:36 -0700") Message-ID: <87fxhkg8qn.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 20 "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > I'm thinking again about removing zImage support. An "allnoconfig" > kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose additional knobs, and > CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do anything at all) is currently 487K on > i386 -- very close to the upper limit of 512K for zImage. An alternative would be to do a concentrated effort to get rid of text bloat again. I bet it could be stripped down to much below that again by just attacking some low hanging fruit. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/