Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150317112415.4125617FDAA%rebar.astron.com@localhost>,
Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Mar 17,  9:56am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
>-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage
>
>| No, you should not randomly add the expensive ptyfs code to INSTALL kernels
>| you can not test yourself. Everything else above is fine, as long as sysinst
>| is silent on ptyfs failure when the compat ipty nodes are available.
>
>Can you please state the criteria that make you say that ptyfs is expensive?
>
>The size of the ptyfs kernel module (amd64)
>text      data      bss dec      hex  filename
>10001     328       0   10329    2859 ptyfs.kmod
>
>The sizes of the install kernels between releases (amd64 again):
>
>text            data     bss    dec             hex     filename
>10185579        5693216  781728 16660523         fe382b netbsd-5.2.3-INSTALL
>11234409        5724168  623712 17582289        10c48d1 netbsd-6.1.5-INSTALL
>
>We can do the same with whichever kernel you want.

For example sun2:

text      data   bss    dec      hex    filename
1073288   26968  201900 1302156  13de8c netbsd-5.2.3-INSTALL
1195647   37148   86296 1319091  1420b3 netbsd-6.1.5-INSTALL

christos