[CUWiN-Dev] space savings ...

[David Young]

Today I read this hint for reducing kernel size.  I will have to give
this a try on the boot floppy we have to use on really old PCs.

Dave

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:43:33PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> > Sometimes it's required to build kernel as small as possibly. For example, for 
> > embedded devices etc. In this case, every 10k of data can be valuable. On the 
> > other hand, production embedded device rarely needs fully idented executable 
> > files (sometimes it's even very undesirable).
> 
> 1) The RCSid are not contained in LOAD sections.  So when the kernel is
> loaded, they stay behind.
> 
> 2) Because you can use objcopy to strip the section with RCS ids:
> 
>    objcopy -R .comment -R .ident netbsd netbsd2
> 
> 
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