Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny1 tree for small systems

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:42:43AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
> 
> > Contributions and suggestions are encouraged. In particular, it would
> > be helpful if people with non-x86 hardware could take a stab at
> > extending some of the stuff that's currently only been done for X86 to
> > other architectures.
> 
> I just tried a kernel build with as much as possible turned off.  This
> uncovered a couple of bugs, which I fixed with the attached diff.  But
> it looks like there finally is a light at the end of the rainbow.

Thanks. I actually cleaned up all this stuff earlier today, will
probably do another release shortly.
 
> 220K compressed and 371K uncompressed.  This is a serious reduction from
> previous versions.  There is still a huge amount of code I can't compile
> out but this is certainly progress.  Thank you.

Suggestions? I'm rapidly exhausting a lot of the obvious candidates.
My target build at the moment is ide + ext2 + proc + ipv4 + console, and
that's currently at around 800K uncompressed, booting in a little less
than 2.5MB. Hoping to get that under 2.

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