BTW, if you want super tiny kernels, check out Microsoft's (unpatented, surprisingly well documented) LZX compression format. It's specifically designed to compress x86 machine code, so it beats out all the general-purpose compression algorithms if the payload is a binary. I think libmspack has an LGPL'ed LZX compressor/decompressor.
- a [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Has anyone tried this to see how small it compiles down to? > > I just looked. With everything turned off I have built a > 220K kernel. 371K uncompressed but that doesn't count. > > It looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel. > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- "If Darl McBride [the CEO of SCO, who claims the GPL 'destroys intellectual property'] was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution" -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
