Re: Minikernel

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> Just for the record:
> 
> I tried to made a kernel with ext2 filesystem, nfs, ramdisk and initrd
> compiled in, the rest as modules. (Note this is all i386 specific, sorry)
> The bzImage is 390039 bytes big.
> All modules together in a gzip -9'ed tarfile take 2164012 bytes.

The slink-i386 is:

  linux    715260
  root.bin 702675

My powerpc-glibc-2.1 is:

  linux     768526
  root.bin 1172311

So the main work must go for the ramdisk. Can s/o build a root.bin on i386
and also alpha and sparc for comparing this?

Which things could be removed from the ramdisk?

MfG,

    Hartmut