Oh my god. I'm just struggling to get my E250 a new kernel (2.4.23-rc3), and I'm constantly compiling. Right now I'm down to 3.9MB.. Seems that won't cut it.
* on the Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:44:23AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:34:58 +0100 > Thomas Habets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought that was what mattered, but is it fixable? 3MB is not enough for > > everybody. I'd say it's hardly enough for anybody actually. > > It's more than enough, it's enough to fit the build that > results from using arch/sparc64/defconfig which includes all > onboard stock devices Sun ever put into an UltraSPARC system. Ha! I turned off sound, parallel, framebuffer, the CD-Rom and all related filesystems, all network-filesystems and really everything I don't need, even things I'd need, like ipsec and ipv6. And I get 3.9MB with that, 4.8MB with all I'd like to have. But there's LVM and Raid and iptables in there. And ext3. And it's of course not enough to just have the stock devices in there, you need filesystems and other things as well. > The boot firmware only provides a few MEG of space with which > we can unpack things. Uh-uh.. And this of course gets worse with 64bit, and the 32bit-wide instructions won't help either? So in fact, I'm like struggling with some (640kb or around) memory-limit of lilo in the old times? Only that this isn't the magical "bill-gates-says-640k-is-enough" barrier but something else (the magical "david-s-miller-says-3mb- is-enough"-barrier?? ;)))? Is it the firmware which does this, or is this a hardware-barrier (like "IC too small")? > You guys are building way WAAAY too much crap statically into your > kernels, use modules and be happy. I'm not happy. Because I had turned off modules on purpose. While its possible to still insert things into the kernel by writing directly into it, its much harder to do so. And there's a few rootkits out there which use modules. So, turning off modules is normally a sensible step, unless you're hampered by your hardware... Well, I'm already recompiling.. with them buggering modules.. lets see.. Cheers Peter -- Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
