Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, martinwguy <martinwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
>>> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB
>>
>> i was expecting a large number but not that large.
>>
>>> I also tried to use a .config file from
>>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb
>>> and it's still is a big image.
>>
>> i'm not impressed. what the fuck's going on with the linux kernel??
> [..]
> Each piece of software has a high point at which functionality over
> bloat hits a maximum, followed by decline. For MSWord it was Word 6.
> For Windows it was Windows 3.11. For Mozilla it was about a year after
> the open-sourcing of netscape, when it was called Firebird. For Linux
> it was somewhere in the 2.4 series.
*depressed*.
> Of course, it's a wonderful piece of software, runs on anything and
> does everything.
> I am surprised there are not more minimalist monomaniacs involved in
> keeping the core code small.
... especially given that the majority of commits nowadays is from
ARM developers. is anyone else in the debian-arm community concerned
about this trend? embedded systems aren't exactly known for their
humongous resources.
l.
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