Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > > > Have people given up on getting the 2.4.x kernel down to below 192k? > > I have. Don't know about anyone else. But the growth in size is due to > factors that are hard to "configure out".
For the present yes. It might be possible, to do some real work with 2.5. But 2.4. is definitely out. You have to hack the core to get it down farther. > > Does it look like flash roms will get bigger anytime soon? > > I'm still hoping this will happen. But the latest Dual P4 Xeon motherboard > we just got has a 256K part :-(. Huh? Both the current Dual Athlon and the Dual P4 Xeon boards I have access to have 512KByte parts. Firmware Hubs (for Intel chipsets) come in either 512KB or 1MB configurations. How did you see a Dual P4 Xeon board with a 256K part? > > Is a tiny, modern linux kernel something that is worth pursuing? > > How to shrink that kernel. That's going to be tough. You're not going to > pull the dentry cache out, for example. The growth is in things you can't > easily yank out. True but with 2.5 at least some of the redundancy like the buffer cache can be removed. But the bottom line is however much you shrink a linux kernel dedicated non-optimal polling drivers will still be smaller. Eric
