Re: Kernel for boot floppies
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies.
> I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new
> installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the
> issues I have is that to read the network drivers, we need to provide support
> for the IDE and SCSI subsystems..
>
> Should those be a separate modules by themselves or should I try to compile them
> into the kernel itself? Then we will have two versions of the kernel, one for
> IDE and one for SCSI as we do now..
>
> Further, does the SCSI support for NCRXX cards alone just enough ? I do not
> have a scsi machine and would appreciate the inputs..
>
> Regards,
> Vaidhy
>
What about compiling the kernel with -Os instead of the default -O2, i
did some compiles and on a small kernel with nothing it made it 3KB
smaller, on my regular kernel which is 946KB it reduced it to 930KB.
It would make it a bit slower i suppose, but space is more of an issue
for the installer.
Glenn
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