Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:47:42PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > Also, .config is here: http://pastebin.com/mvnkW2DD Using this .config, and the arm-2012.03 cross-compiler from codesourcery, I get: Image Name: Linux-3.6.0-rc5mks1+ Created: Thu Sep 13 21:13:46 2012 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size:839360 Bytes = 819.69 kB = 0.80 MB -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120914011556.gd18...@cooper-siegel.org
Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, martinwguy wrote: > On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >>> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB >> >> i was expecting a large number but not that large. >> >>> I also tried to use a .config file from >>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb >>> and it's still is a big image. >> >> i'm not impressed. what the fuck's going on with the linux kernel?? > [..] > Each piece of software has a high point at which functionality over > bloat hits a maximum, followed by decline. For MSWord it was Word 6. > For Windows it was Windows 3.11. For Mozilla it was about a year after > the open-sourcing of netscape, when it was called Firebird. For Linux > it was somewhere in the 2.4 series. *depressed*. > Of course, it's a wonderful piece of software, runs on anything and > does everything. > I am surprised there are not more minimalist monomaniacs involved in > keeping the core code small. ... especially given that the majority of commits nowadays is from ARM developers. is anyone else in the debian-arm community concerned about this trend? embedded systems aren't exactly known for their humongous resources. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedzsirg6mqvcnp3d-nps7clncrzrce-gzxq1uukq5xo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB > > i was expecting a large number but not that large. > >> I also tried to use a .config file from >> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb >> and it's still is a big image. > > i'm not impressed. what the fuck's going on with the linux kernel?? This almost always happens to all software. Someone writes a small, efficient core of code which then gets added to and added to and added to - each change being well-meant, of course - until it is huge and bloated. Then someone gets sick of it and says "I know, I'll write a new, small, efficient core of code"... and the cycle repeats. Each piece of software has a high point at which functionality over bloat hits a maximum, followed by decline. For MSWord it was Word 6. For Windows it was Windows 3.11. For Mozilla it was about a year after the open-sourcing of netscape, when it was called Firebird. For Linux it was somewhere in the 2.4 series. Of course, it's a wonderful piece of software, runs on anything and does everything. I am surprised there are not more minimalist monomaniacs involved in keeping the core code small. M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAL4-wQp5CKEsVM=j9e_je4+l--ihbqtvrp2feygcntnp3yw...@mail.gmail.com
