"Svetoslav Slavtchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > so the bloat started with 9.1 ?
> > > 
> > > can you check
> > > grep "CONFIG_KALLSYMS" /boot/config-*
> > 
> > the bloat really was acpi support out of the box
> 
> acpi is about 120k that's true,
> but acpi doesn't say :
> " the kernel size will increase with 10-20 %"
> which is indeed true

acpi was the one than enlarge kernel the most in last mdk releases..
once acpi was integrated, there was almost no free space availlable on
the floppy.
it only need few enhancements to core drivers to exceed the floppy
size...

note that there's also another culprit: the bootsplash that enlarge
quite lot the initrd

> PS.
> there is one related thred on lkml may be 
> "Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?"
> might be interesting to include it ?
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106645478400001&r=1&w=2
> http://shepard.kicks-ass.net/~cc/

memory issues (need to allocatite much ram in real mode and the
like) ...


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