From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932490AbVHRWLc (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932491AbVHRWLc (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:11:32 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:6097 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932490AbVHRWLc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:11:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=LS7/uAVg8DDMwBjX6VdNRSepWg88pa3mWWXCGQAgEY6Vcc3yhCXgv/gSYZfLpzWCQ1VYTPgA3ydWoSazvsHON2JcIw7Ja/PwIW5TwsHhPcMwaYujxok1rd6cdw5voWz6Fsd2UxedXn2iOdGey2pMgCDFkl5tOyGDYnyneGfzFTg= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:41:30 +0530 From: Imanpreet Arora To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Linux under 8MB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could help with the following queries a) Is linux2.4 just the right option? What about linux 2.0.x? Or for that matter even <2.0 b) What are the specific issues that are to be considered while compiling an old kernel on a newer setup? I ask this because I compiled my current setup on a 2.6.11 machine and while doing "make modules_install", I got errors from depmod[%], complaining about depmod.old. I had to kludge my way through by setting up a link from depmod.old to depmod. [%] Not to mention that on a FC4 machine, gcc 4,x meowed while compiling the kernel. TIA, -- Imanpreet Singh Arora If I am given six hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first four sharpening the knife. -- A.L.