Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 06:47:08 EST


On Tue, 2003-10-14 18:27:05 +0200, Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxx>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310141813320.1776-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> errnum->string. I'd expect that between 10-15% of the uncompressed kernel
> is currently pure text.

Right. For a real lowmem system (4MB RAM) I defined printk to a no-op
and gained 90K at the compressed image IIRC. This was 2.2.x, though.

MfG, JBG

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