Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!> | Subject | Re: Given an image, how can show its config? | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:21:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:33:31 +0200, > Daniel Phillips <news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> wrote: > >I'd just like to remind you of Alan Cox's suggestion about appending > >.config.gz to bzImage so that it doesn't get loaded into memory, and > >my suggestion to put System.map.gz there as well. > > I worry about anything that increases the on disk size of bzImage, even > if the extra data does not get loaded into kernel memory. > > 629590 2.2.16/arch/i386/boot/bzImage > 786273 2.4.0-test8/arch/i386/boot/bzImage > > cat .config System.map | gzip | wc -c > 107591
Definitely, this feature should be optional.
> This is all to protect those few poor 'administrators' who cannot keep > track of three separate files. We should not coddle such idiots, if > they cannot track 3 files they should not be configuring Linux.
Did you ever try to manage ~50 different kernels built from the same source tree ?
3 * 50 = 150
Andrzej
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