> Followup to: <6qg17l$mdc@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
> By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons)
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > How much is tons of kernel memory?
> >
> > The application where I'd like to use devfs is on install floppies.
> > If the load footprint of devfs is < 23k, I've won over insmod
> > (not even counting the additional footprint needed for the module)
> > and I've won bigtime over a userspace solution that wants to
> > include /bin/sh (64k)
> >
>
> The cheapest way is probably to include a populated /dev directory on
> the floppy. If you don't have insmod you can only access the devices
> you have drivers in the kernel anyway.
>
> -hpa
1k per device file? Geez.. Thank you. Devfs just uses a few pages of ram.
I.e. < 23k. :)
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