Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> I don't, and I'm sure it does work, but the memory requirements are 
> typically higher for the newer kernels, so an older kernel is often 
> preferred.

  I believe that the memory requirements for new kernels are higher
only if you compile *everything* into it. Being a monolithic kernel,
it has tons and tons and tons of device drivers, and each version of
the kernel has more and more of them.

  However, I think it's possible to compile the kernel so that it's
optimized for the target platform, with everything unneeded removed.
This reduces the size of the kernel considerably because unneeded drivers
are not included.

  After all, 2.6 has been used for embedded systems.

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                                                          - Warp

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