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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 08:37:55 +0100 From: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@...wrt.com> To: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Harsh Shandilya <msfjarvis@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 3.10.108 (EOL) Am 18.11.2017 um 00:46 schrieb Alan Cox: >>> i just wanted to throw some stones on the bloated kernel problem which is >>> increasing >> People used to be working on that, but then it seemed like the "size" >> got to a point that people were comfortable with it. Are you sure that > There's also a lot of pushback to things that add a ton of ifdefs. > >> just changing some build options would not make your image smaller? >> Letting people know sometime in the past few years that the kernel was >> getting "too big" for you would have been good to do :) > It's also an increasingly hard problem to deal with because the scale of > big machines means the algorithms themselves in a modern Linux OS just > don't make sense for a tiddly embedded router. > > I know lots of people build them that way but if you compare it with one > of the more conservative *BSD builds you have to wonder why not use BSD > instead - especially with nanoBSD ? > > (and BSD has the reverse problem - most BSD does not scale to a modern > bigger machine of course). > > Alan > "1.2.13 was the last true Linux" ;-) > easy. i have to port alot of cpu platforms to bsd then and since i'm doing wireless routers i will run into a problem with all the drivers i have to rewrite for bsd and the bsd wireless stack is simply shit its basicly a impossible task. and most of my code is gpl licensed. mmh mixing with bsd code, not a good idea -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Regards Sebastian Gottschall / CTO NewMedia-NET GmbH - DD-WRT Firmensitz: Stubenwaldallee 21a, 64625 Bensheim Registergericht: Amtsgericht Darmstadt, HRB 25473 Geschäftsführer: Peter Steinhäuser, Christian Scheele http://www.dd-wrt.com email: s.gottschall@...wrt.com Tel.: +496251-582650 / Fax: +496251-5826565
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