From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
Cc: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:38:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093207139.25041.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040822203321.GI19768@thundrix.ch>
On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 21:33, Tonnerre wrote:
> > - What are the minimum requirements for a machine to run Linux?
>
> Intel 8086 processor with a few ko of RAM, with a floppy drive, a
> monitor and a floppy, I think. If you take only the normal kernel into
> account that will be an 80386 processor.
Minimum for an x86 kernel is about 2Mb and 386 CPU. The 8086 subset
kernel isn't really "Linux", its more an escaped insanity. For non x86
you need a bottom end mmuless 32bit processor and a couple of Mb.
There are folks driving the size down (the -tiny patches) because
2Mb for the entire system is still too large for some users.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 21:45 UTC|newest]
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2004-08-21 15:01 ` PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Pascal Schmidt
2004-08-21 15:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-21 21:42 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-08-22 11:56 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 12:14 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 12:52 ` Patrick McFarland
2004-08-22 13:05 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 16:38 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-22 15:11 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-22 18:09 ` Matthias Andree
2004-08-22 13:13 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-08-22 16:00 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-22 16:32 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 17:18 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-22 19:22 ` DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 20:27 ` PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-08-22 21:29 ` Julien Oster
2004-08-23 11:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-23 13:15 ` Matthias Andree
2004-08-23 18:16 ` Kai Makisara
2004-08-24 10:22 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-24 15:34 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 16:33 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-22 16:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 17:31 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-22 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 22:17 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-23 12:22 ` Adam Sampson
2004-08-22 19:26 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-22 20:14 ` DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 20:33 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-22 20:38 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-22 20:43 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 21:37 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-23 11:44 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-23 17:40 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-23 20:25 ` PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Bill Davidsen
2004-08-23 21:01 ` Doug Maxey
2004-08-25 18:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-24 2:22 ` Nuno Silva
2004-08-31 22:22 ` (was: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices) John Myers
2004-09-02 9:44 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-09-02 13:49 ` John Myers
2004-09-02 15:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-22 21:27 ` PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Julien Oster
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2004-08-24 13:04 ` DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Pascal Schmidt
2004-08-24 13:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2004-08-24 4:14 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-28 19:15 ` Alan Cox
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2004-08-23 18:19 ` Andi Kleen
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2004-08-19 22:22 Miles Lane
2004-08-19 23:01 ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-08-19 23:23 ` Julien Oster
2004-08-19 22:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-20 10:08 ` Alex Bennee
2004-08-20 11:21 ` Robert Schwebel
2004-08-20 0:23 ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-20 13:34 ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-08-20 13:46 ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-20 16:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-21 6:03 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-21 6:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-21 6:22 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-21 12:12 ` Julien Oster
2004-08-21 13:27 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-21 21:49 ` Bryan Cantrill
2004-08-23 23:08 ` Christoph Halder
2004-08-22 11:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-22 18:27 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-22 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 17:34 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-22 23:03 ` John Levon
2004-08-23 19:48 ` Robert Milkowski
2004-08-24 0:39 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 19:16 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 0:14 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-29 5:30 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-29 10:45 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-08-29 17:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-29 10:53 ` Robert Milkowski
2004-08-29 10:29 ` Robert Milkowski
2004-08-31 20:16 ` Timothy Miller
2004-08-07 12:51 Linux Kernel bug report (includes fix) Joerg Schilling
2004-08-07 13:26 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-07 19:32 ` Bernd Schubert
2004-08-08 1:18 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-08 5:22 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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