On 8 April 2013 19:28, Kevin Day <toa...@dragondata.com> wrote: > Ages ago we had to make things work in 16 or 32MB of total system memory on > i386. > > For the most part, disabling every compiled-in option/driver we didn't need > was 90% of the effort. Which options/drivers is going to be totally > application dependent, so that really can't be done for you. > > As for the rest, there isn't any large low hanging fruit that can get culled > from the kernel easily. The base kernel isn't modular enough to trim out > individual syscalls or anything, and doing so wouldn't have made a huge dent. > > There are a lot of ways FreeBSD could be more embedded friendly (being able > turn on/off parts of userland depending on licenses is a huge one), but > producing a trimmed kernel isn't something I'd rank very highly. If building > a kernel with everything modularized as possible isn't small enough, FreeBSD > probably isn't going to work for you for other reasons.
The MIPS kernels I'm producing are pretty bare. There's not a lot of options to disable at this point.. :( Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
