From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265141AbUBEM30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:29:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265152AbUBEM30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:29:26 -0500 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:23745 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265141AbUBEM3Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:29:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:29:21 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IPV4 as module? Message-ID: <20040205122921.GB28571@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-04 23:06:10 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote in message <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain>: > Any technical reaon IPV4 cannot be built as module? Current kernel > barely fits on floopy (even with IDE as module); factoring out IPV4 > would allow to reduce size even more. Some hard work need to be done to do that, but why shouldn't a kernel fit onto a floppy? My vmlinuz'es are at about 600 to 900 KB for i386 and a floppy can handle nearly about twice that size... MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIjchHb1edYOZ4bsRAmolAJ9DDstwvdT5ukheKnJ/ZZkfiyTn/wCcCfNe FyHQguBdVvAVh6ecwsu9O00= =mC2A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK--