Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:29:21 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: IPV4 as module? |
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 23:06:10 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote in message <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain>: > Any technical reaon IPV4 cannot be built as module? Current kernel > barely fits on floopy (even with IDE as module); factoring out IPV4 > would allow to reduce size even more.
Some hard work need to be done to do that, but why shouldn't a kernel fit onto a floppy? My vmlinuz'es are at about 600 to 900 KB for i386 and a floppy can handle nearly about twice that size...
MfG, JBG
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