Tiny linux

[Adam Megacz]

BTW, if you want super tiny kernels, check out Microsoft's
(unpatented, surprisingly well documented) LZX compression format.
It's specifically designed to compress x86 machine code, so it beats
out all the general-purpose compression algorithms if the payload is a
binary.  I think libmspack has an LGPL'ed LZX compressor/decompressor.

  - a


ebiederman at lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> Richard Smith <rsmith at bitworks.com> writes:
> 
> > Has anyone tried this to see how small it compiles down to? 
> 
> I just looked.  With everything turned off I have built a
> 220K kernel. 371K uncompressed but that doesn't count.
> 
> It looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel.
> 
> Eric
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