On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:44:39AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
>    	#ifdef STORE_CONFIG
>    	const char kernel_config[] = "
>    	#       $NetBSD: GENERIC,v 1.381 2000/11/28 19:44:07 augustss Exp $
>    	#
>    	#       GENERIC -- everything that's currently supported
>    	#
>    	   [...]
>    	# mouse & keyboard multiplexor pseudo-devices
>    	pseudo-device   wsmux           2
>    	";
>    	#endif /* STORE_CONFIG */
> 
>       That way you'd only get the config file compiled in if you asked for it,
>       which possibly could be the default. It's ~ 25K extra on a 3000K
>       i386 GENERIC kernel.
> 
> Have you thought about simple compression schemes?  It would probably
> compress to a few KB.

Just use gzip on the whole kernel.

Our modern bootloaders (Shark Firmware, i386-like two-stage loader) are 
loading gzipped kernels just fine. The only component that's missing is
zlib in the kernel sym table makedb program.

Regards,
	-is