BTW, if you want super tiny kernels, check out Microsoft's (unpatented, surprisingly well documented) LZX compression format. It's specifically designed to compress x86 machine code, so it beats out all the general-purpose compression algorithms if the payload is a binary. I think libmspack has an LGPL'ed LZX compressor/decompressor.
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ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
Richard Smith rsmith@bitworks.com writes:
Has anyone tried this to see how small it compiles down to?
I just looked. With everything turned off I have built a 220K kernel. 371K uncompressed but that doesn't count.
It looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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