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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:09:50 +0200
From:      xyz <harvey.two.face.kent@gmail.com>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.bg>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lighten kernel
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Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd 
kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration.

Is it difficult to update the patch?


On 04/22/10 23:54, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 4/22/10, xyz<harvey.two.face.kent@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi
>> Thank you for your answer
>> But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves
>> only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...).
>> Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the
>> hard drive this time.
>> Why for the same configuration, linux kernel is lighter than the Freebsd
>> kernel? (3.2mo ; 33.9mo)
>>      
> Can you be more specific? What those numbers mean?
>
>    
>> And, can you release your patch please?
>>      
> I can, but it may be out of sync.
>    



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