On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:55:50AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > >> Already with these patches I can compile a zImage kernel that is 450kb > >> large (890kb decompressed) > > > > The important part is not how big the vmlinux is, but how much > > memory is actually used after boot. > > > > I expect concentrating some of the dynamic data structures would > > be more fruitful in fact. > > > > Well, how big the vmlinux file is matters if it doesn't fit in memory > with enough time to get to the phase where it is dumping the init > sections.
If you don't have enough memory for a few tens of KB of init sections you're very unlikely to have enough memory for user space. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
