[LinuxBIOS] [Fastboot] Re: [Kboot-general] Re: small 64bit initrd

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 23:47:08 CET 2006


> gcc-4.0, put in the -Os option, and got a size of 814K!  This is with
> all I need in the kernel and the kexec option.  If you recall my limit
> is about 950K-960K so this is perfect.  I am assuming the kexec tools
> needs clib so I will have to splice this into busybox somehow but
> hopefully it won't add too much.

If you want to try and go further then:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/debloating-patches/

They are for 2.6.16 though so you will need to go into developent
territory.  Ingo claims a extra  5% or 6% size reduction.  Its not
clear if this is with or irrespective of the tiny patches.

--
Richard A. Smith


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