Re: support of older compilers

[anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)]

Linus Torvalds:
>
>
>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       281572 Jul 30  1995 zImage-1.2.11
>> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       277476 Apr  1  1995 zImage-1.2.2
>> 
>> > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around
>> > for nostalgic reasons?
>> 
>> to remind us how large the kernel is getting? :)
>
>Yeah, I know. Damn, it's scary. We should probably have some
>per-object-file statistics, and try to make people more aware of big bad
>things.

I can't offer that, but at least some more historic data on kernels
for my machines:

[~:42349] ls -ltr /boot|grep linu
...    231940 Mar 15  1994 vmlinux              #1.0
...    219652 Jul 19  1994 vmlinux_ethernet     #1.0
...    265188 Dec  7  1994 vmlinux-1.1.59-net
...    273380 Mar 29  1995 vmlinux-1.2.1
...    273412 Jun  4  1995 vmlinux-1.2.9
...    293892 Oct 26  1995 vmlinux-1.2.9-idecd
...    281604 Dec  9  1995 vmlinux-1.2.13
...    310276 May  9  1996 vmlinux-1.2.13-scsi
...    330756 Oct 30  1996 vmlinux-1.2.13-scsi-sound
...    446281 Dec  8  1997 vmlinuz-2.0.32-rh5.0
...    425237 Dec 20  1997 vmlinuz-2.0.32
...    381607 Jun 24  1998 vmlinuz-2.0.34
...    358407 Jul  3  1998 vmlinuz-2.0.34-2
...    480144 Sep 22  1998 vmlinuz-2.1.122
...    452853 Feb  9  1999 vmlinux-2.2.1
...    617431 May  8  1999 vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
...    721343 Dec 18  1999 vmlinuz-suse
...    500762 Jan 26  2000 vmlinux-2.2.14
...    728255 Nov 28  2000 vmlinux-2.4.0-test11
...    737572 Jun  3  2001 vmlinux-2.4.0-test11-cdrw
...    737575 May 10  2002 vmlinux-2.4.0-test11-usb
...    811903 Sep 26  2002 vmlinux-2.4.19
...   1330830 Nov 27  2003 vmlinux-2.4.21-suse
...   1270508 Nov 29  2003 vmlinuz-2.4.20-bf2.4
...   1322073 Feb 18  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
...   1099371 Apr  4  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.25-amd64-nonetfilter
...   1101157 Apr  4  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.25-amd64
...   1062450 Apr  4  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.25-i386
...   1052249 Apr 13  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.25-i386-noagp
...   1068566 Apr 18  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.25-amd64-20040418
...   1017406 Apr 29  2004 vmlinuz-2.4.26-amd64
...   1271027 May  4  2004 vmlinuz-2.6.5-amd64
...   1271488 May  9 20:15 vmlinuz-2.6.5-amd64-20040509

I also still have a number of them in my LILO menu that probably don't
work:-)

- anton
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