Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:33:29PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1421820 3. Apr 11:56 size1/arch/x86/boot/bzImage > | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1298748 3. Apr 12:30 size2/arch/x86/boot/bzImage | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1287036 3. Apr 12:41 size2/arch/x86/boot/bzImage

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:36:27AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > > With some optimizations which I won't accept for a non-di image: > > | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1421596 3. Apr 10:26 bzImage.orig > > | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1306108 3. Apr 10:35 bz

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:54:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > With today's snapshot, it's still too large. 22kb still needs to be > > trimmed from somewhere. > > With some optimizations which I won't accept for a non-di image: > | -rw-r- 1 wald

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:54:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > With today's snapshot, it's still too large. 22kb still needs to be > trimmed from somewhere. With some optimizations which I won't accept for a non-di image: | -rw-r- 1 waldi waldi 1421596 3. Apr 10:26 bzImage.orig | -rw-r- 1 w

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-03 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:56:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Dropping klibc sh and rewriting init as a custom klibc executable would > > probably save about 25kb.. > > Done, new C init is about 3kb, and once klibc sh, mkdir, and mknod are > removed and a kernel with modular ex

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Dropping klibc sh and rewriting init as a custom klibc executable would > probably save about 25kb.. Done, new C init is about 3kb, and once klibc sh, mkdir, and mknod are removed and a kernel with modular ext2 used, and all the syslinux help screens dropped, it fits. Barely. Le

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > Commited. Should be available with tomorrow snapshots. Please report > back ASAP. With today's snapshot, it's still too large. 22kb still needs to be trimmed from somewhere. Dropping klibc sh and rewriting init as a custom klibc executable would probably save about 25kb..

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:33:55PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > I've implemented this. Please modularise ext2. Commited. Should be available with tomorrow snapshots. Please report back ASAP. Bastian -- Totally illogical, there was no chance.

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:04:54AM +0200, sferriol wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Bastian Blank wrote: > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > >>>The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, > >>>we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an > >>>encapsulating filesystem.

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-01 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an encapsulating filesystem. Could work.. I've implemented this. Please modularise ext2. another solution

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > > The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, > > we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an > > encapsulating filesystem. Could work.. I've implemented this. Please modularise ext2. -- see shy jo sign

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > Which geodes? At least wikipedia does not show lack of FPU. I could be wrong, I thought my openbrick didn't have a FPU, but I can't check. Can't keep up with x86 hardware. > > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > > The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, > > we'

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:03:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > I see two possible changes for now: > > CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y > geodes are still in use AFAIK.. Which geodes? At least wikipedia does not show lack of FPU. > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > The current root floppy is an

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > I see two possible changes for now: > CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y geodes are still in use AFAIK.. > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an encapsulating filesystem.

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:37:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The boot floppy is overfull again with 2.6.24 on i386, which has as > usual put on weight: Thank you for bringing this 2 months after the release. 2.6.25 is at rc7 so you have 2 or 3 weeks to propose changes to this version. I see two p

Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The boot floppy is overfull again with 2.6.24 on i386, which has as I was just about to report this..:-) -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
The boot floppy is overfull again with 2.6.24 on i386, which has as usual put on weight: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1395992 Dec 21 10:47 vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1455832 Feb 11 11:33 vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 I don't know how 59 kb of space can be freed up in the initrd (which is 113