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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Imanpreet Arora <imanpreet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux under 8MB
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:21:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k6ifumd4.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c26b9592050818151154ff1a89@mail.gmail.com> (Imanpreet Arora's message of "Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:41:30 +0530")

Imanpreet Arora <imanpreet@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
>               For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set
> up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which
> just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could
> help with the following queries
>
> a)          Is linux2.4 just the right option? What about linux 2.0.x?
> Or for that matter even <2.0

2.4 is the worst choice.  You want either 2.6 + patches from
the linux-tiny project or you want a noticably older kernel.
The 2.6 option as it is works with what is being developed should
be the more maintainable option.

Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-18 22:11 Imanpreet Arora
2005-08-18 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-19  1:47 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2005-08-19  8:53 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-08-20  0:18 ` Eric Piel
2005-08-21 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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