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DateSat, 3 Jun 2006 09:13:01 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2
* Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 6/2/06, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >does it get any better if you remove:
> >
> >http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-mm2/broken-out/lock-validator-floppyc-irq-release-fix.patch
> >
> >?
> 
> I won't be able to check until later today. With the tracing patch 
> added (for figuring out the warning at boot time), my kernel is about 
> 50-60K too large to fit on a 1.6MB floppy. I first need to see if I 
> can trim or modularize some fat from my kernel without affecting the 
> reproducibility of these bugs... (If all else fails, I'll probably add 
> a CD-RW drive to this box and boot kernels from that.)

just disable FORCED_INLINING in the .config, turn on EMBEDDED and select 
OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, and that should give you 30-40% of kernel size 
savings.

	Ingo
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