Re: [debian-knoppix] Re: devfs
Kai Lahmann wrote:
could you give us some numbers?
It tooke some time, bit here they are:
Kernel on KNOPPIX-2003-04-10 925760 (904k) (*)
Same kernel with devfs enabled 939312 (917k)
With devfs, 4GB, mathemu removed 916477 (895k)
Size on miniroot.gz on KNOPPIX-2004-04-10 476273 (465k)
Same miniroot without /dev on new ext2 fs 468769 (458k)
So adding devfs to the kernel increases its size by 13 kB, but 22 kB can
be gained by disabling Math emulation (CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION). This
means that the kernel won't run on 80386 and 80486SX CPUs without math
coprocessor any longer (486DX, Pentium and higher are fine).
If devfs is used on the initrd, 7 kB can be saved there. /dev could be
copied from the cloop file system so only 6 kB more are needed on
boot.img if devfs is enabled but math emulation not disabled. This means
that the the running Knoppix system would not be using devfs, it would
only be used in the CD ROM detection stage.
(*) I have compiled this kernel myself, the actual kernel on the CD is
925720 bytes. The difference is probably because some drivers do
include the compile date in their version number so the compression
results are slightly different.
Regards,
Stefan Gybas
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