On Mon, 10 May 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-05-10 at 17:14, James Simmons wrote:
> > Speaking of bloat in the kernel. When will the crypto and TCP/IP stack be
> > moved to userspace. The networking code alone is over 17 megs in size.
>
> Not on my box. Nothing like it. Although to answer that question with a
> definitive example ELKS (a Linux like 8086 kernel in 64K) has IP demux
> in kernel space and tcp in user space. The v7 NCP stack also had much of
> the protocol in user space.
Sounds reasonable, since IP demux touches the hardware, and TCP not.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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