From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F65138010 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1C1321C026; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D25E0511 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9D648053D for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:36:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:36:22 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual Message-ID: <20121024153622.5095961f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <5087CE16.6050506@hadt.biz> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1cvs102 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_//0AmhBN8FLH3F_njkFprJ3A"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b8fa580f-b11d-44e0-839b-26a3b7260367 X-Archives-Hash: 53e1dab99a3ad06b3fe1b6c0bbc46e3d --Sig_//0AmhBN8FLH3F_njkFprJ3A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:47:55 -0200, Jo=E3o 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick It's not a bug, it's tradition! --Sig_//0AmhBN8FLH3F_njkFprJ3A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCH/OsACgkQum4al0N1GQPUEwCdGfafgS0OnFyj5XDXuL5+La2F bz8An1gnCoyiASzHtT8FHPLf8huS9XWx =ZNHT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_//0AmhBN8FLH3F_njkFprJ3A--