Re: Solved: 1.3.94: open () still slower than 1.2.13

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@common.net)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 20:32:54 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is a real problem for development, actually - most of the people
> who test out the development kernels have reasonably high-end hardware,
> if only because on low-end hardware it can take longer to compile a
> kernel than it takes for me to release a new one ;-). Anyway, that kind
> of leads to the kernels getting much more testing on high-end machines. I
> hope we're still usable on a 4MB machine ;-/

Just a note: you're still usable on a _2MB_ 386SX/40 (as of 1.3.72,
anyways). The only real modifications were to the ide and floppy drivers
(extraneous devices were ifdef'd out); everything else was stock. I even
managed to fit the whole system into a little 40MB partition. No
compiler, mind you... :-)

Kids, don't try this at home.

(I'll also note for the record that the same kernel runs on a P133 with
64MB. Kernel compiles are marginally faster. ;-)

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