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I think AI should be used to cut down crufts. It just makes no sense to me that Linux Kernel boot images are, how much? A gigabyte?
by numpad0 3y ago
I think AI should be used to cut down crufts. It just makes no sense to me that Linux Kernel boot images are, how much? A gigabyte?
- tredre3 3y ago> It just makes no sense to me that Linux Kernel boot images are, how much? A gigabyte? I guess the reason it doesn't make sense is that you're living in your own imagination where nothing is obligated to be sensical! The current boot image (vmlinuz) on my debian system is 6MB and the initrd is 40MB.
- genewitch 3y agono. > 11M Apr 6 12:14 vmlinuz-6.1.19-gentoo > 4.6M Apr 6 12:14 System.map-6.1.19-gentoo And that's a full desktop QEMU "server" - and i don't use initrd, because i don't need every driver in the tree, just the ones that work for my system. No AI needed. You boot a "kitchen sink" kernel, lspci -k, note down what it says, then just enable those things in the kernel and build it. Even ubuntu being "quite supportive" is 30-45MB. The kernel source tree is over a gigabyte, but that has to support everything it supports - arm, risc-v, x86_64, etc. > 2.2G linux-6.1.19-gentoo/