Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > added (for figuring out the warning at boot time), my kernel is about 
> > 50-60K too large to fit on a 1.6MB floppy. I first need to see if I 
> > can trim or modularize some fat from my kernel without affecting the 
> > reproducibility of these bugs... (If all else fails, I'll probably add 
> > a CD-RW drive to this box and boot kernels from that.)
> 
> just disable FORCED_INLINING in the .config, turn on EMBEDDED and 
> select OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, and that should give you 30-40% of kernel 
> size savings.

also, the latest combo patch:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-combo-2.6.17-rc5-mm2.patch

should have the floppy bug(s) fixed.

	Ingo
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