Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jul 18 2007 20:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Well, how big the vmlinux file is matters if it doesn't fit in memory
>> >> with enough time to get to the phase where it is dumping the init
>> >> sections.  
>> >
>> >If you don't have enough memory for a few tens of KB of init sections
>> >you're very unlikely to have enough memory for user space.
>> 
>> If the code was not too hackish, I would not buy that.
>> Routers for example can run -- minus the userspace utilities required to set
>> things up -- "without" userspace.
>
>They still need memory for packets and other data structures. 
>Without having enough memory to queue packets and keep the routing cache you cannot do 
>any useful routing.

And the hypothetical case where RAM is hotplugged and/or recognized after the
kernel has been loaded by the bootloader? I do not claim to be an expert, but
ASMP (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/13/44) looks like RAM will join during
the kernel boot.


	Jan
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