Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernardo Innocenti <> | Subject | Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:27:16 +0200 |
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 00:27, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:07:15AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 633028 37952 134260 805240 c4978 linux-2.4.x/linux-Os > > 819276 52460 78896 950632 e8168 linux-2.5.x/vmlinux-inline-Os > > ^^^^^^ > > 2.6 still needs a hard diet... :-/ > > I did the same observation a few weeks ago on 2.5.74/gcc-2.95.3. I tried > to track down the responsible, to the point that I completely disabled > every driver, networking option and file-system, just to see, and got about > a 550 kB vmlinux compiled with -Os. 550 kB for nothing :-(
Some of the bigger 2.6 additions cannot be configured out. I wish sysfs and the different I/O schedulers could be removed.
There are probably many other things mostly useless for embedded systems that I'm not aware of.
-- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/
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