From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:10:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6A5C44.9060002@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m18yvpluw7.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The last time I worked on something like this I put a dhcp client, and
> a tftp client in a single binary, my compressed initrd was only 16K on
> x86. And I had a complete network boot loader using the linux kernel.
>
> Now the kernel is so big and bloated it has not been practical to use
> it. So my effort has mostly been concentrated on etherboot. Which
> is essentially a mini-kernel that just focuses on being a network boot
> loader. And with etherboot I can get a udp/ip stack. With dhcp and
> tftp support, and an eepro100 nic driver into 38K on an Itanium (The
> platform with possible the most bloated binaries known to man). On x86
> with an eepro100 driver I can usually get it down to around 16K. (All
> sizes represent self decompressing executables).
>
Incidentally, any hope of getting Etherboot to act as a PXE stack any
time soon?
-hpa (ducks & runs)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 0:16 [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 Greg KH
2003-03-07 1:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 1:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 1:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 1:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 9:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 13:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 15:33 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-07 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 18:37 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 21:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-07 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 23:36 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 23:55 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 0:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 0:54 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 23:39 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 0:00 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 0:38 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 1:27 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-12 17:27 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-13 0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 0:46 ` David Lang
2003-03-08 1:49 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 2:00 ` David Lang
2003-03-08 2:26 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 16:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-08 17:06 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-08 2:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <20030308100359.A27153@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2003-03-08 15:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 16:13 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 17:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09 2:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09 2:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-09 11:32 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-09 11:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09 14:19 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-10 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-10 1:40 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-10 6:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-10 20:33 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2003-03-10 22:02 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-08 20:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-09 1:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-09 1:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09 2:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-07 19:21 Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-07 21:04 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <1047106664.22024.0.camel@rth.ninka.net>
2003-03-08 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 16:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-08 16:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 16:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-08 17:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-08 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09 1:24 ` Roman Zippel
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