On the other hand ... there must be a lot of fluff in the 2.4 kernel .. even
in my cut-down kernels (embeded stuff) I thought the size was a bit Xy ..
Hmm ... ok hit me with this then ... help me set-out a definitive list of
kernel options that we need for a "bios kernel" .. and I'll see what I can't
make up;
Need
- Module Support?
- APM?
- MTD
- PNP
- IDE
- RAM(Block Device) ?
- INITRD
- Networking?
- Ethernet Drivers?
- ISO (CDROM)
- Serial
- FileSystems (which ones? EXT2 FAT ISO9660)
Want
- SMP?
- Partitions?
- FileSystems (JFFS? NTFS?)
Remove
- ISDN
- PPP
- WAN
- Sound
- VGA ?
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Questions
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:18:48 -0700
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ian wrote:
>
> > Yes, you mentioned this before ... but I checked that out and have
> > some vague recollection of 1.0 missing lots of really great stuff
> > (like networking) ..? Won't that cause you problems for all of the ppl
> > who netboot from this project? ... would 1.0 know enough about disk
> > geometries to boot the devices we're talking about?
>
> well I just pulled down 2.0.39 and it won't even build any more, sigh.
>
> But a 2.0.39 with generic ide would probably fit in 256KB.
>
> ron
>
>
