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[Bas Smeelen]

On 11/26/2012 04:26 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 26.11.2012 16:49, Jakub Lach:
>> Absolutely not, it's a heavily stripped custom kernel on this machine on
>> /boot/.
>
> Do you call this heavily stripped? :)
>
> > ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5757970 Nov 26 10:57 /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> However it's very hard to strip kernel further and make it usable for all 
> machines.
>
>> I was pointing to that, if my kernel is 9 MB, there's no way GENERIC could
>> be
>> 1.5-2.5 MB.
>
> That's true...
>

i386 kernel with the only devices I need without debug symbols is 4.5MB on 
7.4-STABLE
fb1:/home/Freebee % uname -a
FreeBSD fb1 7.4-STABLE FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE #7: Mon Nov 26 11:27:42 CET 
2012     root at fb1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FB1  i386
fb1:/home/Freebee % ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4.6M Nov 26 11:27 /boot/kernel/kernel

amd64 same story on 9.1-RC3 is 6.3MB
[Freebee at sys:~] $ uname -a
FreeBSD sys 9.1-RC3 FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0: Wed Oct 31 11:56:55 CET 2012     
root at sys:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYS  amd64
[Freebee at sys:~] $ ls -hl /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6.3M Oct 31 11:56 /boot/kernel/kernel