On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:23:15AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Sandro "red" Mathys > >> <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>> I think Josh is mostly there. He has 58MB + 5M vmlinuz + <similar?> > >> >>> firmwre. > >> >> > >> >> Firmware is owned by linux-firmware, not the kernel package. I didn't > >> >> include it in my kernel numbers for that reason. > >> >> > >> >>> He just has to cut 35MB or so from /lib/modules/. We can probably nickel > >> >>> and dime and review a lot of cruft to get there, but what is that 35MB > >> >>> really doing to get us anything? I am sure half of that can be removed by > >> >>> re-examining the minimal-list he sent (I can even help there). > >> >> > >> >> Right. Considering the bloat elsewhere in the distro, I think we can > >> >> start with what I have and work from there if needed. > >> > > >> > Excellent progress there. So 35MB are already gone and I figure > >> > (re)moving graphics, sound and other obvious things will gain us quite > >> > some more MB. Nice job. > >> > >> No. 62MB are already "gone". The 35MB was what is needed > >> additionally to get to comparable numbers with ubuntu. Sound I could > >> see dropping. Graphics, not so much. > >> > >> Really, I'm likely to start with what I have and if there are major > >> reasons that get brought up (with data) to trim further, we can look > >> at it. > > > > I agree too. I think you did an awesome job Josh. Most of the fat is > > trimmed. :-) Anything more should really come with some numbers/data. > > Don't get too heavy on the praise yet. This still needs to be done at > the packaging level. The changes to kernel.spec might make you want > to poke your eyes out or something ;). Oh, I thought you had the package split already into kernel-common and kernel-drivers? But yes I would be interesting in seeing those changes because that filters to RHEL eventually. I can already see RHEL developers whining about extra packages to install... ;-) Though all the kernel-tools stuff seemed to have gone smoothly... Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
