On Jun 19, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
yes, but you're left with a kernel that has hooks in it for hardware that you will NEVER use. If you want to reduce the memory footprint of the kernel (this was always my goal) you remove those unnecessary module hooks.
Isn't this only really necessary on embeded and low-memory systems these days? Most [popular] linux distributions won't even install in less than 128MB (some as low as 64MB). How many machines are around these days that are less than 32MB RAM? One could argue that those should be loaded with something like Damn Small Linux or an embedded Linux distro, anyway.
I stopped worrying about building optimized kernels a LONG time ago. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
