On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:54:45AM -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:27:30PM -0700, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > However, I don't think you should kill WSDISPLAY_DEFAULTSCREENS. That is
> > the number of screens allocated at bootup time; they are not reconfigurable.
> > Plus they chew up memory -- and the 1.5 i386 GENERIC kernel is already bloat
> > city. Please don't make it worse without good reason.
> 
> Tell me about it. 
> 
> The GENERIC 1.4Z i386 kernel leaves 2.5 megs of memory for user programs
> out of the 8 that I have. A compile of a new kernel took just over a month.
> My new kernel left over 5 megs of memory, and a kernel compile in that much
> memory took less than 2 days.
> 
> Is there any chance of a i386 GENERIC_SMALL kernel perhaps?

There is a GENERIC_TINY, would this work for you ?
At last you should be able to get sources with GENERIC and then recompile
a custom kernel with GENERIC_TINY

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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