Re: debian-installer status
Erm, it's been so long that I forgot. We do use devfs. We still have to
provide a number of compatability links in /dev, since a lot of stuff,
expecially libraries, doesn't support the devfs names yet. Everything
we're foing for d-i should use the devfs names, if possible.
joey@silk:~/tmp/tmp.new/tree/dev>l
console loop1 loop6 ram@ ram12 ram2 ram7 tty0 tty5 urandom
core@ loop2 loop7 ram0 ram13 ram3 ram8 tty1 tty6 zero
full loop3 mem ram1 ram14 ram4 ram9 tty2 tty7
kmem loop4 null ram10 ram15 ram5 random tty3 tty8
loop0 loop5 port ram11 ram16 ram6 tty tty4 tty9
Not too bad. I'm not losing any sleep over this, that's for sure.
> Oh, and speaking of kernels.. I've always wondered how much extra bloat is in
> the kernels - if you put a Makefile directive stripping each object file at
> some point, whether it'd still boot. Once I tried running strip on a vmlinux
> image, but it didn't work for obvious reasons. Still, some chunks might be
> reduced in size.
We strip modules as much as is possible. I have never heard of stripping
the kernel itself.
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