Thomas Fritz wrote:
There's a PDF file on the tiny-linux site, which has a descriptions of results - with a 2.6 kernel with more features than I'd need, the writer says that he got it as small as a compressed 363K image, and a user reported a compressed image as small as 191K.
Thats very encouraging. I wonder what was enabled in the 191Kib version. 191+64 is just enough for those people with 256Kib flashes.
This is all very interesting, but while I have 512K to work in right now, I have no idea how much space linuxbios needs. Also, keep in mind I'm going to be trying to cross-compile for the PowerPC...does the same code need more bytes or fewer bytes?
In my current LB1 setup that does not netboot:
LB = 60Kib ADLO = 136Kib
By the time they run through the script the whole thing ends up being 228Kib but I have my settings so that the smallest alignment is like 64k or so. I don't remember exactly so I've got wasted space.
I have no idea how the PPC code compares to x86. I've cc: this to the list perhaps some PPC person can comment.
I think V2 is much larger due to the use of romcc but I don't have any hard info on that as I haven't made the jump yet.