My god! 2.5 is big
My gzip'ped 2.4 kernel is 250k smaller than 2.5 and it works. Perhaps I just need to remove some code... ;-)
/Brian
Quoted 2 lines · Brian Murphy
My gzip'ped 2.4 kernel is 250k smaller than 2.5 and it works. Perhaps I just need to remove some code... ;-)
Old saying - "software is like gas, it fills all available space" ;-)
The MIPS 2.5 is still in it's quite early stages; I suspect we can still regain part of the extra size. More important than the pure kernel size (users booting from flash throw your rotten vegies now ;-) is the in memory size. The greatly reduced size of struct page for example will result in a net gain of memory available for applications for systems of more than about 48MB.
Ralf