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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: kip.r2@free.fr
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Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:51:31PM +0100, kip.r2@free.fr wrote:

> What will be the approximate size for a minimal MIPS kernel?

Btw, the -tiny tree of 2.6 has been booted on a 2MB system.  Supposedly that
was an i386 system so MIPS16 should boot in an even smaller system and a
normal 32-bit MIPS kernel should have enough space to wiggle in 4 megs.

Does anybody on this list actually still care about that small systems?

  Ralf