Hi. Look on memory usage. Storage contains compressed code, linux image in RAM will be uncompressed after loading. I think that built-in modules will require much more RAM.
15.12.2015 17:38, Erich Titl пишет: > Hi Folks > > first results from my test with module handling > > I compiled kernels with all the modules from initmod compiled into the > kernel for each of the three i386 architectures > > SALT# ls -l linux* initrd* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1313792 Dec 15 08:37 initrd.lrp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 546639 Dec 15 15:19 initrd1.lrp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1786576 Dec 15 08:37 linux > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2214912 Dec 15 15:21 linux1 > > Adding another entry to boot linux1 with initrd1 to the grub menu is, of > course, extremely simple. My test system is a WRAP running with a non > optimized i486 variant of the kernel > > We can save about roughly 800 KB on initrd which does not need any > modules anymore. We have to spend about 450 KB on the kernel, which > definitely holds too many drivers for my type of architecture. As a net > result it takes about 350 KB less space on storage than the traditional > initmod approach. > > In this setup there is no moddb involved. > I still need to test modifications on init to just load the modules from > sqfs instead of copying them to /lib/modules and getting rid of the > calls to depmod as this information is written to the modules.sqfs anyway. > > cheers > > ET > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > leaf-devel mailing list > leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
