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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:40:28 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> 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.
True, I'm just remembering that the low memory footprint stuff typically
has used older kernels.
Jim
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