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Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.

To: Chris Dukes <pakrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:47:49 -0800
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:42:35AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> That's getting on for 2MB vs:
>    2620    2012       0    4632    1218 fs/nfs/nfsroot.o
>    8016     380      80    8476    211c net/ipv4/ipconfig.o
> about 13K.

There's a cap on the maximum size of things various bootloaders can
load via tftp; 2MB is relatively certain to blow it. ISTR the limit
being something near 1MB for 2 of my boxen.


-- wli

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