Greetings,
It might be useful to switch to ext2 so the journaling code can be dropped. In general, a bootloader mostly needs read only access anyway.
Might also be interesting to see how much network/socket code can be chopped out of a kernel/bootloader.
G'day, sjames
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jeff Noxon wrote:
I just built 2.6.0-test2 in 441kB with one IDE DMA driver and ext3. I have yet to try LinuxBIOS (waiting for some BIOS Saviors!), but it looks like I will be able to do quite a lot with my Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M) if I upgrade the BIOS chip to an 8mbit part.
Doing anything useful with the 4mbit chip may still be a lost cause, but it does look like 2.6.0 has lost some bloat. Perhaps if some of us contribute more "embedded fat-trimming" patches we can make linuxbios+linux+initrd fit easily in a half megabyte.
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