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Re: more newbie questions...
> From: "David G. Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
> Subject: Re: more newbie questions...
>
> If you're doing things like initializing the network, you can
> oftentimes strip out many of the network drivers you don't need.
> Ditto that for things like scsi drives, etc. Don't compile with
> --enable-debug, though you're probably avoiding this already.
Take a look at:
oskit/oskit/dev/linux_ethernet.h
oskit/oskit/dev/linux_scsi.h
oskit/oskit/dev/freebsd_isa.h
oskit/oskit/fs/linux_filesystems.h
You can modify these header files to reduce the number of drivers you get,
and thereby reduce the size of your kernel quite a bit.
Lbs