[LinuxBIOS] [Kboot-general] Re: small 64bit initrd

[Richard Smith]

> >
> > Getting 1 MB is as good as we can do for now.
>
> Hmm, that'll get awfully tight :-(

Its tight but can be done.  I've build a embedded system that booted
out of 1Meg of flash.  2.4 kernel+initrd that loaded a pcmcia module
for the wireless adapter in the system dhcp'ed up the network and then
pulled down a larger ramfs and kexec'ed into it.
I had to build a custom version of the pcmcia tools with uclibc only
doing the absolute minimum to get the wireless interface up.

IIRC I only had a couple of  Kb left over.

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Richard A. Smith