Re: IPV4 as module?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 23:06:10 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
wrote in message <20040204200610.GB3802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Any technical reaon IPV4 cannot be built as module? Current kernel
> barely fits on floopy (even with IDE as module); factoring out IPV4
> would allow to reduce size even more.

Some hard work need to be done to do that, but why shouldn't a kernel
fit onto a floppy? My vmlinuz'es are at about 600 to 900 KB for i386 and
a floppy can handle nearly about twice that size...

MfG, JBG

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