Re: NetBSD-8 kernel too big?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Two thoughts:
>
>  When trimming, ls -lSr in the kernel build directory will identify
>  large objects.
>
>  We have had kernel modules for a while, but I'm not entirely clear on
>  where we are.  I would think that moving to a mode of aggressively not
>  including things that can be modules and loading them from the fs as
>  needed would help, particularly if the issue is the bootloader, vs
>  memory used up when running.   This is not build as part of an -8
>  release build, but there is MODULAR in the conf directory.

I've been running a load-everything-as-modules-when-needed system for
years.  :)  My 8.99.22 kernel weighs in at under 12MB:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12102488 Jul 26 14:00 /netbsd

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