I was looking at the 2.6.0-test2 kernel tree today and saw new menu
choices under
"General Setup -> Remove Kernel Features (for embedded systems)" which
looks like the beginings of an effort to strip out large though somewhat
optional features. For instance, the current choices include:
Load all
I just built 2.6.0-test2 in 441kB with one IDE DMA driver and ext3.
I have yet to try LinuxBIOS (waiting for some BIOS Saviors!), but it
looks like I will be able to do quite a lot with my Tyan Tiger MPX
(S2466N-4M) if I upgrade the BIOS chip to an 8mbit part.
Doing anything useful with the 4mbit
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Joshua Wise wrote:
> Ooh, I wish that existed in the 2.4.x tree... I am working on a 'linux as
> bootldr' project for ARM (iPAQ specifically). Presently, our zImages are at
> 480k, and we need to get them down to sub-256k (while still adding more
> features!) Out of curiousi
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> I was looking at the 2.6.0-test2 kernel tree today and saw new menu
> choices under
>
> "General Setup -> Remove Kernel Features (for embedded systems)" which
> looks like the beginings of an effort to strip out large though somewhat
> optional featu
Greetings,
It might be useful to switch to ext2 so the journaling code can be
dropped. In general, a bootloader mostly needs read only access anyway.
Might also be interesting to see how much network/socket code can be
chopped out of a kernel/bootloader.
G'day,
sjames
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jeff
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Joshua Wise wrote:
> Presently, the CLI is running as part of the kernel - not as a seperate
> userland application (the reasoning being that we can use the kernel's driver
> architecture - I have created a drivers/bootldr subdirectory for things like
> that. for more, check
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> up until about 2.4.13, putting a kernel, small initrd, and linuxbios in
> 512KB was not that hard. Then it just balloned.
Ouch. Was there specific bloat that happened after 2.4.13? After doing a
preliminary look over the kernel code, much of the bl
Adam Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was looking at the 2.6.0-test2 kernel tree today and saw new menu
> choices under
>
> "General Setup -> Remove Kernel Features (for embedded systems)" which
> looks like the beginings of an effort to strip out large though somewhat
> optional features. F
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> I'm interested. I assume this CLI is running as part of linux? Or is it
> the pre-linux stuff?
Presently, the CLI is running as part of the kernel - not as a seperate
userland application (the reasoning being that we can use the kernel's driver
ar
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:
> It seems like pretty good news for the linux kernel as a bootloader route
> that effots are being made to get the kernel smaller when necessary.
good, because long term, that is still a preferred choice for me.
ron
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Joshua Wise wrote:
> Ouch. Was there specific bloat that happened after 2.4.13? After doing a
> preliminary look over the kernel code, much of the bloat seems to be in the
> filesystem code...
the dentry cache was not a cheap date. But the bloat seems to happen
everywhere,
ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:
>
> > It seems like pretty good news for the linux kernel as a bootloader route
> > that effots are being made to get the kernel smaller when necessary.
>
> good, because long term, that is still a preferred choice f
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