On 2020/05/27 22:50, Connor Schech wrote: > I compressed the GENERIC link kit with tar czf and it becomes 114MB, all > other things being equal to what is done now. That becomes significant for > users with many instances or embedded devices. There are trade-offs > involved, so to speak.
Relinking once is already quite heavy and makes some systems unusable, this at least applies to slower machines using the architectures with wide hardware support in the kernel, i386 probably being the worst case - some of the smaller arches like landisk cope better, partly because there's less in the kernel and partly because they use ld.bfd which uses less RAM. Extracting from tar.gz and linking twice is going to be way too much for these.
