Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) | | Date | 8 Aug 1998 08:37:10 GMT |
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Followup to: <6qg17l$mdc@pell.pell.portland.or.us> By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > How much is tons of kernel memory? > > The application where I'd like to use devfs is on install floppies. > If the load footprint of devfs is < 23k, I've won over insmod > (not even counting the additional footprint needed for the module) > and I've won bigtime over a userspace solution that wants to > include /bin/sh (64k) >
The cheapest way is probably to include a populated /dev directory on the floppy. If you don't have insmod you can only access the devices you have drivers in the kernel anyway.
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