Re: [2.6 patch] remove mca-pentium

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 19:41:58 EST


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:27:36AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> btw., it would be nice if someone could try a "smallest possible, but
> still usable" x86 kernel.
>
> the smallest one i could do, and which was still usable via the
> networking, is the config below. It has a vmlinux of:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1330285 146512 69632 1546429 1798bd vmlinux
>...

"still usable" depends much on the use case - you might e.g. not have
to bloat the kernel with CONFIG_BLOCK=y if it's for a machine without
block devices.

> Ingo
>...

cu
Adrian

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