Kernel in smaller ROMs, salvation in sight?

[Eric W. Biederman]

Adam Agnew <agnew at cs.umd.edu> writes:

> I was looking at the 2.6.0-test2 kernel tree today and saw new menu
> choices under
> 
> "General Setup -> Remove Kernel Features (for embedded systems)" which
> looks like the beginings of an effort to strip out large though somewhat
> optional features. For instance, the current choices include:
> 
> Load all symbols for kernel debugging/ksysmoops
> Enable futex support
> Enable eventpoll support
> Anticipatory I/O Schedualer
> Deadline I/O Schedualer
> 
> It seems like pretty good news for the linux kernel as a bootloader route
> that effots are being made to get the kernel smaller when necessary.

Currently this is running about 60K-100K larger than 2.4.x even with
everything disabled.  But patches to shrink this are welcome.

Eric