Thanks for the info. I will give it a try. I actually had linux-tiny in my list of links to get to and read, and hadn't got there yet. A few months ago I just took a straight forward approach of clicking the same things I had in 2.4 for 2.6, and it built out at about 1300K. It was so far from 900K that I didn't look any further. Things that I need that add a lot are for example usb mass storage and also ext3 but I am not sure how much that adds.
I might also mention that I have always left out module support, and linked in 5-10 most popular network drivers. There seems to be no savings in space since you would need all the modules on the disk anyway. Never had any problems in the drivers finding their card or conflicting. The idea is that it can be used on a wide variety of hardware without configuration. Maybe others have a better approach I am open for ideas.
Steve G.
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I did some measurements in early 2.6. Using the patches from the linux tiny tree. 2.6 was comparable with 2.2 and noticeably smaller than 2.4.
Basically my conclusion is that 2.6 was only bigger because it had more stuff in it by default and almost all of that stuff is configurable.
Eric