Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:27:07 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool |
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On Thu, 2006-03-02 22:28:05 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:51:06PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > You may want to have a chance to load modules from an initrd with is > > on a 2nd floppy. > > In these cases, CONFIG_UNIX shouldn't make the difference between the > kernel fitting on the first floppy and the kernel not fitting on the > first floppy.
Heh. By Linus' Law, kernel footprint grows. To get a nice useable floppy disk, you may need to do *quite* some jumps to make it fit.
In the worst case I had, I even started to throw out some of the device ID tables (unneeded entries), killed printk() by defining a no-op for it etc. to save some *bytes*. Yes, it's a nice dance:-)
MfG, JBG
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