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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:36:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121024153622.5095961f@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP4tJZJjog3cyzC1+BKgxZPMPKfNqLXAjXiX3w2Wm_o95Fps7Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:47:55 -0200, João Matos wrote:

> The size is almost the same (3.3 MB), and I believe this is why my work
> until now was to remove non used hardware modules - the easy part.

Modules don't significantly affect the size of the kernel, only builtins.
A hand-prepared kernel may actually be larger than a genkernel one
because the latter builds almost everything as modules whereas without an
initramfs, you need some modules as builtins.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

It's not a bug, it's tradition!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-23 22:02 [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual João Matos
2012-10-23 22:49 ` Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2012-10-23 22:50 ` Redcap
2012-10-23 23:22 ` Dale
2012-10-23 23:25 ` [gentoo-user] " João Matos
2012-10-24  7:54   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-24  2:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
2012-10-24 11:16 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-24 13:24   ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-25 22:09     ` João Matos
2012-10-24 13:47   ` João Matos
2012-10-24 13:58     ` Dale
2012-10-24 14:36     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-10-25  9:16 ` Jackson
     [not found] <jXUPD-6dD-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2012-10-23 22:58 ` Gregory Shearman

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