On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:06:05PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:58:01 -0500 > >>>>> "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NLM> > NLM> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > >> I don't know how far over alpha is, but fitting on a PC floppy might be > >> too much to ask of architectures with 64 bit code. You can always go the > >> two floppy route if you need to.. > NLM> > NLM> The i386 kernel from the recent alpha snapshot is roughly half the size > NLM> of the Alpha kernel I'm working with. The initrd image is slightly > > current i386 is about 650K, alpha ~ 930K. The smallest working alpha > kernel I have created was 830K. This leaves ~600K for a compressed > initrd.img. This is not enough, also.
I think there's quite a lot of things that can be done to a standard 2.4-kernel to decrease its size. Now, I don't have an alpha, so I can't test my changes directly, but I'll have a look at the source and see if I can come up with something to shave off a 100k or so. Would that be enough, or would you need even further shaving? Regards: David Weinehall -- /> David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander <\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
