Re: The end of embedded Linux?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> I actually find this relatively disturbing:
> 
> Memory: 2584k/4352k available (881k kernel code, 1380k reserved, 171k data, 56k
> init, 0k hi)
> 
> To truly scale this far downward finding ways to use less than 40% of
> RAM on things allocated at or before boot-time seems necessary,
> especially trimming down that 881KB.
> 
> I'll have to apologize that it's unlikely I'll be able to take any
> direct action toward addressing this problem as my focus is elsewhere,
> but I consider this a valid and even important concern.

Indeed, the box in question didn't require any more memory for its 
application so that somewhat bloated kernel was sufficient. I could have 
saved a bit more by removing a lot of drivers, e.g. IDE

	Zwane

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