In Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:03:08 +0800, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
> > Hi Roy, > >> Is there any guide that can help on compiling custom kernel with >> less-used >> function(for example, NLS functions) removed/stubified? > > Well FAT32 is a compile time option and I think RayeR made > a slightly stripped kernel for his "DOS in your flash BIOS > chip" micro... ehh... distro, but there is no one size fits > all answer to your question. If you can make a list of the > things you want to remove, then people on this list could > tell you how much size difference it would make and how bad > of a hack removing those functions would be :-) Note that > you do not want to spend much effort for this: Most users > have much bigger disks and with DOS extenders and already > by simply having DOS=HIGH in the HMA, kernel size is not > an issue anyway. Also, the FreeDOS kernel is designed to > be nice and small compared to the big feature set... :-) If I want to remove fdconfig.sys support, break, numlock, echo, switches, country, HLT idle, and menus in CONFIG.SYS options, and hardcoded NLS page, and all NLS stuff(replaced with stub) How much I can shrink? > > Regards, Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is > your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take > a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
