From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) Subject: ALPHA-pl10 Gripe Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 15:47:24 GMT
Hello! I just picked up the Alpha pl10 kernel, and I have a selfish gripe
to report :-)
I usually try to build a very small kernel. I include no FPU emulation,
no networking, no SCSI support, no busmouse support, and no more than three
filesystems (xiafs, msdos, proc).
Before the pl10 Alpha, the size of my Image was always around 270KB. The
pl10 Image with the same features is 400KB. My guess is that a lot of
networking stuff that I don't need is being compiled in (yes, I disabled
networking during "make config"). I hope that the release version of pl10
will be smarter about leaving all that stuff out.
Also, what's with the new driver architecture? I've always admired Linux
for being so small and fast. Now I see Space.c and have nasty System V
flashbacks.