Tiny linux

[Eric W. Biederman]

ebiederman at lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > On 4 Jan 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > > I just looked.  With everything turned off I have built a
> > > 220K kernel. 371K uncompressed but that doesn't count.
> > 
> > this is 2.6 or ...
> 
> 2.6.1-rc1-tiny1
> 
> Adding in 
> - printk
> - serial console support
> - networking support ( Not IP networking)
> - an eepro100 driver
> 
> takes it up to about 306K compressed.
> With IPv4 support compiled it goes to about 396K compressed.
> 
> So the patches for 2.6 exist to make it usable.  And there
> is still room for improvement.

Playing a little more in the nothing selected case I get the kernel to
191K if I compile out support for block devices.  After writing
the patch that allows that.

Eric