From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271269AbTGWW1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:27:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271358AbTGWW1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:27:30 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:3823 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271269AbTGWW10 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:27:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase From: Alan Cox To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Bernardo Innocenti , Christoph Hellwig , uClinux development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030723222747.GF643@alpha.home.local> References: <200307232046.46990.bernie@develer.com> <20030723193246.GA836@lst.de> <200307232357.25128.bernie@develer.com> <200307240007.15377.bernie@develer.com> <20030723222747.GF643@alpha.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058999665.6890.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jul 2003 23:34:26 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 23:27, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I was interested in using a very minimal pre-boot kernel with kexec which would > automatically select a valid image among several ones. But 500 kB overhead for > a boot loader quickly refrained me... Something like the GPL'd eCos might be a better option (or on x86 there is the 64K Linux 8086)