Alex King wrote:
>
> Just a couple of things :)
>
> Is there a patch available to backport the ethertap driver to 2.0 kernels?
> I've got an application for ethertap, but some of the machines it will be
> running on are 386's with 8mb, and I don't want to move to 2.2 if I can help
> it.
Have you tried 2.2 on one of them? In 2.2's favour is all the __init stuff
that 2.0 doesn't have. If you only had 4MB it might be a different story.
Compile without modules and with a minimal driver set, maybe do some quick
hacks like -malign-xxx=0 in arch/i386/Makefile, stub out the random driver,
cut the /proc/sys/vm/freepages numbers in half, dump the math-emu FPU
support (you need a small patch to libc to allow this).
Of course by the time you've done the above you might have also been
able to put ethertap into 2.0... And 2.0 can be slimmed down pretty
good too if required.
Paul.
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