Ok, what the Workstation won't need ?
And what the server would need ?
At least in my case the only difference is what kind
of display card is used, and that does not affect the
kernel configuration a bit... (I don't use fbcon..)
[/usr/src/linux]$ du -ks *|sort -rn
27993 drivers
$ du -ks drivers/*|sort -rn
7744 drivers/net
6815 drivers/scsi
3412 drivers/char
2144 drivers/video
1890 drivers/sound
1583 drivers/isdn
1582 drivers/block
783 drivers/cdrom
...
8655 arch
832 arch/alpha
436 arch/arm
1021 arch/i386
1927 arch/m68k
780 arch/mips
1122 arch/ppc
1278 arch/sparc
1258 arch/sparc64
6298 include
2028 include/linux
667 include/asm-sparc
589 include/asm-sparc64
558 include/asm-mips
478 include/asm-arm
426 include/net
420 include/asm-alpha
406 include/asm-m68k
359 include/asm-ppc
297 include/asm-i386
...
3959 net
1040 net/ipv4
686 net/irda
383 net/ipv6
248 net/802
224 net/sched
...
3945 fs
547 fs/hfs
502 fs/nls
178 fs/nfsd
174 fs/ufs
170 fs/ext2
...
2401 Documentation
355 scripts
258 mm
253 kernel
...
You could get it smaller by constructing packages according
to the configuration you want, without anything else.
However that requires feeding the configuration to some
pre-packing engine which then selects correct bits for the
constructed package which you could then download (in real
time ?)
But how do you generate that configuration, and where do
you feed it, and what happens then ? How does it handle
multiple base architectures ?
If you can answer to these questions, you propably are done
at least the planning phase for the service.
> /Lars
> Student at Department of Computer Science
> University of Copenhagen
> http://www.diku.dk/students/larsj/
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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