Jonathan Campbell <[email protected]> writes:
> I wrote a set of patches out of concern that even if you compile a 386
> kernel a lot of code irrelevent to legacy machines still
> remains. Things like the Pentium TSC register, DMI information, ESCD
> parsing, and the use of CPUID do not apply to these machines, but
> looking at System.map you can see they're still there.
I'm afraid a lot of this, like the CPUID changes, are fairly pointless
because they are __cpuinit code anyways. This means (unless you compiled
a kernel with CPU hotplug support enabled) it will be all freed after
boot.
> Already with these patches I can compile a zImage kernel that is 450kb
> large (890kb decompressed)
The important part is not how big the vmlinux is, but how much
memory is actually used after boot.
I expect concentrating some of the dynamic data structures would
be more fruitful in fact.
-Andi
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