From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl10 Gripe Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 19:22:21 GMT
In article <1993May28.180146.7630@eecs.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
>The reason your new kernel is larger is that you compiled a
>non-compressed kernel (Image) instead of a compressed kernel (zImage).
>Alpha-10 kernel is about 40K larger than a pl9 kernel when both are
>compressed, and TCP/IP are compiled in (and that stands for most of
>the difference).
>
>Try "make zImage" and see if you don't get a lot smaller kernel this
>time.
No, the problem is that if you configure the kernel not to include the
TCP/IP support, it goes ahead and puts it in anyway. There are no conditionals
in the Makefile that prevent make from descending into the various tcp/ip
directories as there were in 0.99pl9.
-Eric
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