kernel image size

[John Allen]

I need to get the kernel that I am building for my Geode sc1200 
(including the linuxbios code) small enough to fit on a 256K eeprom.  Is 
this possible?  My first attempt resulted in vmlinux of  626K.  After 
compiling linuxBIOS it gave my a rominage of  448K.  Am I missing 
something?  I tried to strip as much out of the kernel as possible.  
John