Re: IPV4 as module?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sun, 2004-02-08 03:14:20 +0100, Tomasz K?oczko <kloczek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402080257060.29247@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl>:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 23:06:10 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
> > 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...
> 
> Better will be ask why you must recompile kernel for add ipv4 abilities
> if you uses (olny) for example ipv6 stack ? :)

That's the other way around :) Let's just omit legacy IPv4!

> PS. Many modern PCs wave now only CD drive .. one CD can fit much 
> more than kernel image and all kernel modules. So step your quostion path 
> it will be "much more correct" ask why the hell kernel is (still ?) 
> modular (?) 8^>

That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting
is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD
images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)).

MfG, JBG

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