On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 06:27:47PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > Looking at https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ the memory footprint for a > WPA2-personal binary > is stated as 50KB on the x86 target without any debugging. > > I have tried to compile a minimal configuration WPA as below on RPI > (had some issues with 32bit compilation on my 64bit machine): > but got the binary size of ~289K, am I missing something? or are the > numbers outdated? I think those numbers are from the last time I looked at the minimal binary sizes which was probably around 2005 or so.. A lot more functionality has been added over the last 18 years and there has not really been much focus to trying to make sure the minimum size would remain small.. > But the help text for CONFIG_NO_WPA mentions ~35-50KB reduction, with > > CONFIG_NO_WPA=y > CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=n > > we get ~237K, so, that is 52K reduction, so, can I assume that the > "wording" should be a reduction and not absolute binary size? I'm not sure which wording you are referring to here.. This 35-50 kB reduction is from 2005 as well and at the time and this one is reduction as it says while the numbers on the web site are for the full binary. > Either way looks like the website text needs an update, as customers > just refers to that expect to match reality. Well, I'm not sure whether there is really much interest on keeping this type of number up-to-date and as such, that update might mean simply deletion of any numbers or adding a note pointing out that the values were from a snapshot in 2005 and do not indicated more or less anything about the current snapshot. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
