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
