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

To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:00:15 -0500
Cc: 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
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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.

Since this is totally machine/architecture specific (we're tftp'ing 10MB kernel/ramdisk images to embedded PPC machines here) it might be a good idea to ask around and find what the most restrictive requirements are. Is 1MB the worst-case or does it get even tighter?

Chris



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