Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:30:22PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> (This mail is easier to reply to with the quoting upside down and
>  inside out 8-)
> 
>  > linux is somewhat bigger.
> 
> That doesn't appear to be the case to me..
> Lets compare apples with apples..
> 
>  > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 22957 May 17 12:26 ether8390.8
>  > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10052 Feb 25 04:46 8390.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 eric     eric         4656 May 21 12:57 ns8390.o
>  > --rw-r--r-- M 9 andrey andrey 36009 May 17 12:26 ether82557.8
>  > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        29204 Feb 25 04:46 eepro100.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 eric     eric         4844 May 21 12:57 eepro100.o

> Each time, the Linux driver is smaller..

And the etherboot driver is even smaller.  I could really only find
the 2 drivers that paired up easily.

Or course the Plan9 core is enough smaller than the Linux core
that driver size increase may not be a problem.  And the etherboot
core is small enough etherboot can fit in 16K.

Eric

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