lighten kernel

xyz harvey.two.face.kent at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 05:11:33 UTC 2010


Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd 
kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration.

Is it difficult to update the patch?


On 04/22/10 23:54, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 4/22/10, xyz<harvey.two.face.kent at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi
>> Thank you for your answer
>> But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves
>> only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...).
>> Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the
>> hard drive this time.
>> Why for the same configuration, linux kernel is lighter than the Freebsd
>> kernel? (3.2mo ; 33.9mo)
>>      
> Can you be more specific? What those numbers mean?
>
>    
>> And, can you release your patch please?
>>      
> I can, but it may be out of sync.
>    


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