From: Paul Kelly (longword at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Sun 21 May 2000 - 04:16:20 IST
Niall O Broin wrote:
> When all architecture specific stuff (linux/arch/*) is removed the resultant
> archive in bzip2 form is only 11276346 bytes and the linux/arch/* directories are
> the following sizes (all in bzip2 form)
To be fair, there's a large body of platform-specific code and
documentation outside of the arch directories. Things like
drivers/{acorn,nubus,sbus,sgi,s390}. I haven't counted, but at a guess
I'd say it's at least as much again on top of your figures.
But I do agree with your point. What's more, de-merging the kernel would
lead to more newbie problems. It's hard enough for them to handle a
single source archive as it stands. For the rest of us, and anyone else
willing to trade a little cunning for brute force, there are nice small
(single!) patch files to satisfy all but those stuck with v.22bis
modems.
Paul.
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