Kernel size

sup /prog/?

Assuming I can get a boot loader to bring it into memory (which may be a
major limitation), how large of a kernel can be built, loaded, and started?
I'd like to know how far I could potentially go in building a HUGE initramfs
image.

I have several ideas for things to do.  One of them involves having another
kernel image in the initramfs image and loading it via kexec.

thanks /prog/

...why would you want a huge kernel?

>>2
maybe he's putting it on an xbox

-funroll-loops -fOMG_OPTIMIZED

CFLAGS just kicked in, Yo.

>>2
The kernel will be tiny if all the modules are in the initial CPio-compressed ram filesystem.

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