On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:11:30AM -0700, Lombard, David N wrote: > The current (20080324) kexec binary on x86 is 135KiB. While not a > problem on a normal distro or runtime environment, it's a chubster > in an embedded role. > > Has any thought been given to reducing its 'on-disk' footprint? > The rather obvious, non-default build-time options to only support > specific kernel types and capabilities, jumps to mind. > > Beyond build-time options, a Busybox applet would further minimize > size, but maintenance would be painful... > Busybox is precisely what I use to implement kdump in RHEL at the moment. Its still a bit bloated, since it is meant for enterprise servers, but it makes it very easy to customize very small initramfs files for specific purposes. Neil > -- > David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA > I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman at redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/
