Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:46:20 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.10.108 (EOL) |
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> > i just wanted to throw some stones on the bloated kernel problem which is > > increasing > > People used to be working on that, but then it seemed like the "size" > got to a point that people were comfortable with it. Are you sure that
There's also a lot of pushback to things that add a ton of ifdefs.
> just changing some build options would not make your image smaller? > Letting people know sometime in the past few years that the kernel was > getting "too big" for you would have been good to do :)
It's also an increasingly hard problem to deal with because the scale of big machines means the algorithms themselves in a modern Linux OS just don't make sense for a tiddly embedded router.
I know lots of people build them that way but if you compare it with one of the more conservative *BSD builds you have to wonder why not use BSD instead - especially with nanoBSD ?
(and BSD has the reverse problem - most BSD does not scale to a modern bigger machine of course).
Alan "1.2.13 was the last true Linux" ;-)
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