Re: Rebuilding Linux kernel

[Nix]

On 30 Jan 2006, Lee Revell said:
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 12:33 +0530, Heerath bh wrote:
>> 
>> Basically  I am trying to rebuild the kernel.I am trying to make two
>> types of kernel.I am using Redhat 2.4 version on intel x86 machine.
>> 1.Deployment level kernel
>> 2.development level kernel.
>> 
>> Deployment Level kernel:This kernel has to be a Very vanilla kernel. I
>> mean to say, it wil be having basic kernel services like:preemptive
>> kernel,memory
>> 
>>  management,scheduling&synchronization,sysatem
>> timers,IPC,Interrupt handling,multitasking.
>> 
> 
> You will need 2.6 for this, 2.4 is inadeuate (no preemption).  2.6.14 or
> 2.6.15 is a good choice.

He wants it to fit in 300K (of RAM? final image size? he didn't say).

No way will normal Linux kernels get that trim, nor any Linux-like
kernel supporting all the features he wants.

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