Re: Big kernel again

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
3 Dec 1998 05:31:50 GMT

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> Turning off smp will make it a lot smaller.
>
> Max on bzImage is (I believe) 16megs.
>

No hard maximum on bzImage, although the kernel may get confused if
there is no ISA DMA memory at all available.

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