Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2005 16:16:02 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: zImage on 2.6? |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 19:05:32 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote:
| Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:19:22 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote: | > | > | Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > | > On Tue, 3 May 2005 12:33:43 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote: | > | > | Yes, I do recall it says "System is 724k". zImage failes. bzImage says | > | > | 724k as well and succeeds. | > | > | > | > The image size needs to be <= 0x7f000 (520192 bytes, 508 KB). | > | > | > | > (No, I don't know why, just that this is what is being | > | > enforced.) | > | > | > | > Just cut more out of the kernel image... | > | | > | Any suggestions? All that I know of that is modularizable is a module, | > | except for keyboard, ext2, unix sockets, ramdisk+initrd. Some of the options I need since | > | this is supposed to support all relevent hardware that we use where I work. | > | (all scsi,ide,sata,raid cards,ethernet cards that we have) | > | > Are those (mostly) modular? | | Yes. | | > Is this supposed to be a kernel that is used on a regular basis, | > not just a temporary quick boot thing? | | I'd say it would be used frequently, but short lived. | | > You want one kernel that handles many configurations but fits | > in < 510 KB? That is aggressive. :) | | =) hehe, if I can. | | > I think of this as being a custom kernel, but it sounds | > like you want a very general-purpose (small) one. | | Yes, very custom. | | | > | SCSI_PROC_FS=y | > drop this one | > | > | AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y | > | AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y | > | AIC79XX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y | > | AIC79XX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y | > drop these. | | All SCSI is a module, these I assume are just capabilites in the modules.
OK.
| > | SOUND_GAMEPORT=y | > drop. | | Couldn't find a configure option to disable this. It caught my eye too. I | don't have gameport in input configured.
OK, probably hidden.
| > | VT=y | > | VT_CONSOLE=y | > | HW_CONSOLE=y | > | VGA_CONSOLE=y | > | DUMMY_CONSOLE=y | > drop that ^^^^^ | | All of those or DUMMY_CONSOLE?
I meant just DUMMY_CONSOLE.
| | > so what's the problem with using a bzImage kernel? | | Nothing, I wanted to see if zImage would be smaller. As others have stated, | it's not. However, I did not know this. | | I do appriate your time in helping me. I'm real close to getting this on a | single floppy (if I formatted to 1.7mb, it would be easy. I know some of | our systems that I would need this on can't use these). One goal is to use | the same kernel for all booting.
Good luck, have fun.
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