Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:08:02 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Let's get rid of ide-scsi |
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Alex Davis wrote: > --- Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote: > > I personally do not agree with this. I worked on at boot disk(floppy) which > > contained the kernel and modules to find a cdrom (or usb disk) and use it as > > my 2nd stage. If I had to use ide-cd, I would not beable to do my first > > stage loader on a single floppy (I support ide and scsi cdroms via sr-mod). > > > > ide-cd.ko is > than sr-mod.ko + ide-scsi.ko > > > > I am aware that scsi_mod.ko is larger than those 3 combined and I still need > > it regardless for usb. > > > > My personal vote would be to drop the entire ide subsystem which would thus > > drop ide-scsi. The SCSI layer has been a general block device layer for > > more than true scsi devices. USB, Firewire, and SATA use the scsi layer. > > And as I understand it, libata is starting to handle PATA devices. Once it > > can handle PATA fine, the ide code would pretty much be useless. > > > > I am also against the seperate USB block layer, I personally saw no use in > > it. > > > > -- > > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals > > Got Gas??? > > > > Wakko: > > Modules can be compressed: On a 2.6.15 kernel doing a 'gzip -9 idecd.ko' reduced its size > from 43616 bytes to 19234 bytes. The only additional step is modifying 'modules.dep' and > changing idecd.ko to idecd.ko.gz. You now have a fully functional ide cdrom driver.
This I did not know. I'm not sure if it will really matter or not. The initramfs is already gzip -9'd. I have a list of modules that are required for stage 1 which pulls in the dependancies for those modules. It does currently fit on a single floppy. I'm using a upx compressed kernel, a gzip -9'd initramfs, kernel is compiled with -Os and I'm using a -Os compiled busybox statically compiled with uclibc. When it's all said and done, I have less than 10kb available on a floppy. I thought it was quite an acomplishment getting all that one 1 floppy.
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